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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.
Garrison Keillor
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Garrison Keillor
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 7
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Gary Edward Keillor
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The great unrequited love tears open your heart to the beauty of the world, its small rivers and upland meadows. It also makes you kinder to the next hundred thousand persons who cross your path.
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Ha! Easy for nuns to talk about giving up things. That's what they do for a living.
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People always are encouraging about a terrible loss, so that sometimes the loser would like to strangle them.
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Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
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Jesus said the meek would inherit the earth, but so far all we've gotten is Minnesota and North Dakota.
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Being rich and thin isn't everything.
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Enough. Man is capable of reform once presented with the facts, and the fact is that bottling water and shipping it is a big waste of fuel, so stop already.
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There's so many people who move around our country and lose track of their own ancestry. It's nice to know where you come from.
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Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.
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Humor needs to come in under cover of darkness, in disguise, and surprise people.
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Eating a little was like vomiting a little, just as bad as a lot.
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The reason to retire is to try to avoid embarrassment you ought to do it before people are dropping big hints. You want to be the first to come up with the idea. You don't want to wait until you trip and fall off the stage.
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Face it: a nation that maintains a 72% approval rating on George W. Bush is a nation with a very loose grip on reality.
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If you lived today as if it were your last, you'd buy up a box of rockets and fire them all off, wouldn't you?
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