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• One night I attended a Laughing Liberally comedy show. There was one funny comedian there - Lee Camp.

  Matt Labash

  Laughing, Comedian, Comedy

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• By some chance, here they are, all on this earth; and who shall ever tell the sorrow of being on this earth, lying, on quilts, on the grass in a summer evening, among the sounds of the night. May God bless my people, my uncle, my aunt, my mother, my good father, oh, remember them kindly in their time of trouble; and in the hour of their taking away.

  James Agee

  Summer, Mother, Quilts

  James Agee (2008). “A Death in the Family”, p.15, Penguin

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• Wouldn't it be terrible if you'd spent all your life doing everything you were supposed to do, didn't drink, didn't smoke, didn't eat things, took lots of exercise, all the things you didn't want to do, and suddenly one day you were run over by a big red bus, and as the wheels were crunching into you you'd say 'Oh my god, I could have got so drunk last night!' That's the way you should live your life, as if tomorrow you'll be run over by a big red bus.

  Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother

  Running, Exercise, Drunk

  "Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: The Official Biography". Book by Michael Parker, 2009.

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• Being in the building with Sarah Palin that night is a transformative and oddly unsettling experience. It’s a little like having live cave-level access for the ripping-the-heart-out-with-the-bare-hands scene in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

  Matt Taibbi

  Heart, Hands, Indiana

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• People should be _very_ careful when choosing the future fathers and mothers of their children. For that reason alone, it is extremely mean to demand a marriage certificate for life, just for one night of embracement.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Mother, Children, Father

  Wilhelm Reich (2012). “Where's the Truth?: Letters and Journals, 1948-1957”, p.11, Macmillan

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• There are those who still think they are holding the pass against a revolution that may be coming up the road. But they are gazing in the wrong direction. The revolution is behind them. It went by in the Night of Depression, singing songs to freedom.

  Garet Garrett

  Song, Thinking, Singing

  Garet Garrett (1944). “The Revolution was”

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• People frequently comment on the emptiness in one night stands, but emptiness here has always been just another word for darkness. Blind encounters writing sonnets no one can ever read. Desire and pain communicated in the vague language of sex.
  None of which made sense to me until much later when I realized everything I thought I'd retained of my encounters added up to so very little, hardly enduring, just shadows of love outlining nothing at all.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Sex, Pain, Writing

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• I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest - sometimes not even the most diligent. But they are learning machines; they go to bed every night a little wiser than when they got up. And, boy, does that habit help, particularly when you have a long run ahead of you.

  Charlie Munger

  Running, Boys, Long

  Commencement speech at the graduation ceremony for the USC Gould School of Law, genius.com. 2007.

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• I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he's guilty; do you think I could sleep at night or look at myself in the mirror in the morning if I hounded an innocent man?

  Jim Garrison

  Morning, Sleep, Men

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• A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.

  Homer

  Leadership, Sleep, Responsibility

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• Rise and put on your foliage, and be seen
  To come forth, like the spring-time, fresh and green,
  And sweet as Flora. Take no care
  For jewels for your gown or hair
  Fear not; the leaves will strew
  Gems in abundance upon you
  Besides, the childhood of the day has kept,
  Against you come, some orient pearls unwept.
  Come, and receive them while the light
  Hangs on the dew-locks of the night
  And Titan on the eastern hill
  Retires himself, or else stands still
  Till you come forth! Wash, dress, be brief in praying
  Few beads are best when once we go a-Maying.

  Robert Herrick

  Sweet, Spring, Light

  Robert Herrick (1852). “Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine”

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• It is time to put up a love-swing!
  Tie the body and then tie the mind so that they
  swing between the arms of the Secret One you love,
  Bring the water that falls from the clouds to your eyes,
  and cover yourself inside entirely with the shadow of night.
  Bring your face up close to his ear,
  and then talk only about what you want deeply to happen.

  Kabir

  Fall, Eye, Clouds

  Kabir (1977). “The Kabir book: forty-four of the ecstatic poems of Kabir”

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• One night I dreamed I was locked in my Father's watch
  With Ptolemy and twenty-one ruby stars
  Mounted on spheres and the Primum Mobile
  Coiled and gleaming to the end of space
  And the notched spheres eating each other's rinds
  To the last tooth of time, and the case closed.

  John Ciardi

  Stars, Father, Space

  John Ciardi (1969). “The Achievement of John Ciardi: A Comprehensive Selection of His Poems with a Critical Introduction”

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• Good tired, ironically enough, can be a day that you lost. But you won’t even have to tell yourself, because you knew you fought your battles, you chased your dreams, you lived your days. And when you hit the hay at night, you settle easy, you sleep the sleep of the just, and you can say, “Take me away.

  Harry Chapin

  Dream, Tired, Sleep

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• You may learn sooner than most generations the hard lesson that you must always make the path for yourself...There is no secret society out there that will tap you on your shoulder one night and show you the way.

  Stephen Colbert

  Inspirational, Graduation, Secret

  "Commencement 2013 Speakers: Obama to Oprah Winfrey Bestow Words of Wisdom". abcnews.go.com. June 1, 2013.

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• So I watched the Pink Panther last night, and so I'm trying desperately to be funny, and then it's just not working out so good... I wonder if maybe I could've been a comedian or something like that, or maybe I could've been a doctor, then I wouldn't have to make anyone laugh.

  Dave Matthews

  Doctors, Work Out, Laughing

  "Live at Luther College". Live album by Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds, January 19, 1999.

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• In this respect early youth is exactly like old age; it is a time of waiting for a big trip to an unknown destination. The chief difference is that youth waits for the morning limited and age waits for the night train

  Bruce Catton

  Morning, Differences, Waiting

  Bruce Catton (1987). “Waiting for the Morning Train: An American Boyhood”, p.39, Wayne State University Press

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• As a camel kneels before his master to have him remove his burden at the end of the day, so kneel each night and let the Master take your burden.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  The End Of The Day, Camels, Burden

  Corrie Ten Boom (1985). “Jesus is Victor”, Fleming H Revell Company

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• In today’s vastly expanded scientific enterprise, obsessed with impact factors and competition, we will need much more night science to unveil the many mysteries that remain about the workings of organisms.

  Francois Jacob

  Impact, Competition, Needs

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• Similarly, when you lose yourconsciousness, when you go to sleep at night or when you're anesthetized, youdon't really think that you're really going to be losing your mind.

  Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield

  Sleep, Thinking, Mind

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• Nobody was perfect. Not even close. And everybody had wrinkles from smiling and squinting and craining their necks. Everybody has marks on their bodies from years of living- a trail of life left on them. Evidence of all the adventures and sleepless nights and practical jokes and heartbreaks that had made them who they are.

  Katherine Center

  Smile, Heartbreak, Adventure

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• Yet just as the day has two halves, one governed by the sun and the other by the moon, so there are many who are people of the day and who busy themselves with daytime deeds, whilst others are children of the night, their minds consumed with nocturnal notions; but yet there are some in whom the two merge like the rising of the sun and the moon in a day.

  Aino Kallas

  Children, Moon, Two

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• Don't ever permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure. That's on the top of my lineup card every night.

  Joe Maddon

  Cards, Pressure, Pleasure

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• People who are born even-tempered, placid and untroubled - secure from violent passions or temptations to evil - those who have never needed to struggle all night with the Angel to emerge lame but victorious at dawn, never become great saints.

  Eva Le Gallienne

  Struggle, Angel, Passion

  Eva Le Gallienne (1966). “The Mystic in the Theatre: Eleonora Duse”

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• Find out what's keeping them up nights and offer hope. Your theme must be an answer to their fears

  Gerald C. Meyers

  Motivational, Self Improvement, Answers

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