Wit & Wisdom
From John Lennon, Abe Lemons, Charlton Heston
“Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.”
John Lennon, quoted in CNN.com
“It was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they’d have no heart to start at all.”
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Cormac McCarthy, quoted in the Pasadena, Calif., Star-News
“Silence is argument carried on by other means.”
Che Guevara, quoted in Forbes.com
“The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.”
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College basketball coach Abe Lemons, quoted in the Montreal Gazette
“The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie.”
Choreographer Agnes de Mille, quoted in the Tulsa World
“Political correctness is tyranny with manners.”
Charlton Heston, quoted in ChristianPost.com
“Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.”
Henry Miller, quoted in the Associated Press
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