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That's always the way when you discover something new; everyone thinks
you're crazy.
                -- Evelyn E. Smith

The adjuration to be "normal" seems shockingly repellent to me; I see neither
hope nor comfort in sinking to that low level.  I think it is ignorance that
makes people think of abnormality only with horror and allows them to remain
undismayed at the proximity of "normal" to average and mediocre.  For surely
anyone who achieves anything is, essentially, abnormal.
                -- Dr. Karl Menninger, "The Human Mind", 1930

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being but to remind him that
he is already degraded.
                -- George Orwell

The angry man always thinks he can do more than he can.
                -- Albertano of Brescia

The average nutritional value of promises is roughly zero.

The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in
the morning feeling just terrible.
                -- Jean Kerr

The best laid plans of mice and men are usually about equal.
                -- Blair

The best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts
of kindness and love.
                -- Wordsworth

The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and
fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are
drifting side by side to our common doom.
                -- Clarence Darrow

The best thing about growing older is that it takes such a long time.