You don't have to justify a beautiful stroke of good luck. Accept it. Smile and say thank you. - Garrison Keillor

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Our family really didn't have a car; we had my dad's police cruiser. Later he got a Buick, and that's what I was driving when I had a wreck. I'm lucky it was as big and strong as it was, because that Buick is what saved my life.

Garrison Keillor

You don't have to justify a beautiful stroke of good luck. Accept it. Smile and say thank you.

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I think if the church put in half the time on covetousness that it does on lust, this would be a better world for all of us.

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A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.

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Intelligence is like four-wheel drive. It only allows you to get stuck in more remote places.

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Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.

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God writes a lot of comedy. . . the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.

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Kendrick Lamar

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ’cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

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Aristotle

Whereas young people become accomplished in geometry and mathematics, and wise within these limits, prudent young people do not seem to be found. The reason is that prudence is concerned with particulars as well as universals, and particulars become known from experience, but a young person lacks experience, since some length of time is needed to produce it.

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Kurt Vonnegut

- Why me? - That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is. Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber? - Yes. - Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why.

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Andrei Voznesensky

The times spat at me. I spit back at the times.

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