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"We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics."
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"Usually when we talk about blessings, we experience joy and anticipation of a greater presence of God in our lives."

"People are complaining of having rags and not riches, but I find it a blessing just to have rags, to wipe away the dirt and dust that may come in the course of life."

"I want to thank you, Lord, for life and all that's in it. Thank you for the day and for the hour, and the minute."

"Most humbling of all is to comprehend the lifesaving gift that your pit crew of people has been for you, and all the experiences you have shared, the journeys together, the collaborations, births and deaths, divorces, rehab, and vacations, the solidarity you have shown one another. Every so often you realize that without all of them, your life would be barren and pathetic. It would be Death of a Salesman, though with e-mail and texting."

"If I have become so pathetically dulled that I hold freedom as my right and the privileges of liberty as my due, I can stand beside the stilled graves of a thousand soldiers fallen in defense of freedom and not feel a thing. And my most solemn prayer is that I will never be this."

"If you have life, you have everything."

"Thanksgiving is not only being aware of the abundance of good in the world but embracing it."

"With all respect to your religion or world-view - thank God, thank the universe, thank evolutionary processes - the keyword is "thank" - just have some gratitude and be thankful."

"Those who are not grateful soon begin to complain of everything."
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"A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election."

"Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem."

"People learn something every day, and a lot of times it's that what they learned the day before was wrong."

"Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to."

"Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed."

"Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man's lifetime income - which he then spends sending his son to college."

"In the game of life, it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season."

"An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves."

"It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them."

"Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them."
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