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(Photo by Steve Rawley) “Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.” — James Thurber, writer and cartoonist (1894-1961)

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“Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.” — Czeslaw Milosz, poet and novelist (1911-2004)

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“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.” Albert Camus, “The Fall”

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It’s hard out here in the suburbs if you’re a kid who wants to make mischief. From this week’s Police Log: “Police responded to a criminal mischief call at The Round at Beaverton Central after a witness spotted two ‘kids pulling out flowers and knocking over trash cans, trying to break stuff.’”

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(Photo by Steve Rawley) “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” — George Eliot

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“Never, never be afraid to do what’s right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society’s punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.” — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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“The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.” — Linus Pauling, chemist, peace activist, author, educator; Nobel Prize in chemistry, Nobel Peace Prize (1901-1994)

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“Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the human heart can hold.” — Zelda Fitzgerald, novelist (1900-1948) (Photo by Steve Rawley)

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“My stories run up and bite me in the leg — I respond by writing them down — everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.” — Ray Bradbury, science-fiction writer (b. 1920)

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“For every prohibition you create you also create an underground.” — Jello Biafra, musician (b. 1958)

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