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It's incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion. Less vivid and intense ourselves, closer…

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Suicidal thinking, if serious, can be a kind of death scare, comparable to suffering a heart attack or undergoing a cancer operation.…
It would be hard to define chaos better than as a world where children decide they don't want to live.
To relive the relationship between owner and slave we can consider how we treat our cars and dogs - a dog exercising…
There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or…
Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in the long…
Men often compete with one another until the day they die. Comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.
If a person sings quietly to himself on the street people smile with approval; but if he talks it's not alright; they…
Country people do not behave as if they think life is short; they live on the principle that it is long, and…
Many divorces are not really the result of irreparable injury but involve, instead, a desire on the part of the man or…
There aren't many irritations to match the condescension which a woman metes out to a man who she believes has loved her…
The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so, one is…
Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway…

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I hazard the guess that man will be ultimately known for a mere polity of multifarious, incongruous, and independent denizens. — Robert Louis Stevenson
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It's incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion. Less vivid and… — Edward Hoagland
Against the background of this luminous and sparkling stage Bond stood in the sunshine and felt his mission to be incongruous and… — Ian Fleming
I have wanted . . . to commit a murder myself. I recognized this as the desire of the artist to express… — Agatha Christie
This thing is but a puny imitation of a much grander system whose laws you know, and I am not able to… — Isaac Newton
In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in… — Jerome Bruner
Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment… — E. M. Forster
A great philosopher has stated that the worst evil of poverty is, that it makes folks ridiculous; by which, I hope, he… — James Payn
The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of… — Jesse Owens
The beautiful must be incongruous. — Julien Torma

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