A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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My drawings have been described as pre-intentionalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me. I shall not argue the point.James Thurber
From now on, I think it is safe to predict, neither the Democratic nor the Republican Party will ever nominate for President a candidate without good looks, stage presence, theatrical delivery, and a sense of timing.
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Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober.
James Thurber
It is better to have loafed and lost, than never to have loafed at all.
James Thurber
Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
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He was always leaning forward, pushing something invisible ahead of him.
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Ambrose Bierce
On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success.
Martin Van Buren
Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ease in the direction of the original succession and with a certainty proportional to the frequency with which they were together.
Hermann Ebbinghaus