Dave Barry

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"If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be 'meetings.'"

Chuck Palahniuk

"The best thing about getting a flu shot is that you never again need to wash your hands. That's how I see it."

E.B. White

"It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer."

Aeschylus

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"There is no avoidance in delay."

James Jones

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"It is the knowledge of the unendingness and of the repetitious uselessness, the do it up so it can be done again, that makes Fatigue fatigue."

George Bernard Shaw

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

John Steinbeck

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"It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it."

Marie Kondo

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"At their core, the things we really like do not change over time. Putting your house in order is a great way to discover what they are."

Phillip Pullman

"After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world."

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce."

Kristin Armstrong

"Typically creative people are usually not clock-slaves or list-makers, so the idea of enforcing goals and deadlines can be somewhat daunting."

Mark Twain

"Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured."

Erma Bombeck

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"Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times are twelve minutes. This is not coincidence."

Dwight Schrute

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"Babies are one of my many areas of expertise. Growing up, I performed my own circumcision."

Agatha Christie

"One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life, I think, is to have a happy childhood."

Paul Cezanne

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"The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution."

Tom Hodgkinson

"Being lazy does not mean that you do not create. In fact, lying around doing nothing is an important, nay crucial, part of the creative process. It is meaningless bustle that actually gets in the way of productivity. All we are really saying is, give peace a chance."

Anne Lamott

"Toddlers can make you feel as if you have violated some archaic law in their personal [bible] and you should die, infidel."

Ogden Nash

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"A family is a unit composed not only of children, but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold."

Henning Mankell

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"Many words will be written on the wind and the sand, or end up in some obscure digital vault. But the storytelling will go on until the last human being stops listening. Then we can send the great chronicle of humanity out into the endless universe."