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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
James Thurber
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James Thurber
Age: 66 †
Born: 1894
Born: December 18
Died: 1961
Died: November 2
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James Grover Thurber
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Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
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For one thing, she pronounced flowers 'flars' and I couldn't let it slide.
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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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