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" A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. "
Life
God
Go
" Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed. "
More
Most
Nothing
" Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time. "
Blue
Time
Window
" I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way. "
Idealist
Know
Way
" I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world. "
Candid
World
Woman
" I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it. "
My Life
Mistake
Grammar
" In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning. "
Morning
Eyes
Awake
" I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural. "
Hard
Work
Time
" I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future. "
Tomorrow
Future
Live
" Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split one boulder. "
Deep
Boulder
Dig
" Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. "
Like
Life
Time
" Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence. "
Love
Fence
Neighbor
" Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me. "
Things
Life
Best
" Nothing happens unless first we dream. "
Happens
Dream
Dreams
" Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child. "
Write
Man
Child
" Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. "
Poetry
Shadow
Asking
" Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits. "
Synthesis
Biscuits
Poetry
" Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work. "
Up
Work
Slang
" Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny. "
Window
Night
Worry
" The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to. "
Lonesome
Talk
Space
" There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud. "
Me
Hippopotamus
Eagle
" The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. "
Admire
Without
Secret
" Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. "
Will
You
Coin
" To be a good loser is to learn how to win. "
Win
Good
Loser
" To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard. "
Damn
Work Hard
Die
" We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written. "
Get
Up
Title
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