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People rarely do what they don't want to.

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Peter De Vries
Age: 83 †
Born: 1910
Born: February 27
Died: 1993
Died: September 28
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Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask. What's in it for me?
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Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.
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What people believe is a measure of what they suffer.
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My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
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Do you believe in astrology? -I don't even believe in astronomy.
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There are times when breakfast seems the one thing worth getting up for.
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Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.
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We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. It may be the very recognition of all men as our brothers that accounts for the sibling rivalry, and even enmity, we have toward so many of them.
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The trouble with treating people as equals is that the first thing you know they may be doing the same thing to you.
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Why is the awfulness of families such a popular reason for starting another?
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I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.
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What baffles me is the comfort people find in the idea that somebody dealt this mess. Blind and meaningless chance seems to me so much more congenial - or at least less horrible. Prove to me that there is a God and I will really begin to despair.
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You ought to be ashamed, a woman in an Easter bonnet told Stein. Your race gave us our religion... From ancient polytheism, the belief in lots of gods, the woman continued a little more eruditely, the Hebrew nation led us on to the idea that there is only one. Which is just a step from the truth, said Stein.
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This human nature is shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection.
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All couples must bear the strain of getting acquainted, having been, up to then, merely intimate.
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A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
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