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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.: Tom Robbins (1936 - )
If little else, the brain is an educational toy.: Tom Robbins (1936 - )
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Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.: Tom Robbins (1936 - )
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Results from Cole's Quotables:

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.: Tom Robbins (1936 - )
The bottom line is that (a) people are never perfect, but love can be, (b) that is the one and only way that the mediocre and vile can be transformed, and (c) doing that makes it that. We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.: Tom Robbins (1936 - ), Still Life With Woodpecker

Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on Heaven is to create hell. In their desperate longing to transcend the disorderliness, friction, and unpredictability that pesters life; in their desire for a fresh start in a tidy habitat, germ-free and secured by angels, religious multitudes are gambling the only life they may ever have on a dark horse in a race that has no finish line.": Tom Robbins (1936 - ), _Skinny Legs and All_, 1990, p. 305.
If little else, the brain is an educational toy.: Tom Robbins (1936 - )
When she was a small girl, Amanda hid a ticking clock in an old, rotten tree trunk. It drove woodpeckers crazy. Ignoring tasty bugs all around them, they just about beat their brains out trying to get at the clock. Years later, Amanda used the woodpecker experiment as a model for understanding capitalism, Communism, Christianity, and all other systems that traffic in future rewards rather than in present realities.: Tom Robbins (1936 - )
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