Peacekeeper missile." Doesn't that sound like "ax-murderer baby sitter"?

—Elayne Boosler

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Elayne Boosler (born August 18, 1952) is an American comedian, writer, and actress.

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My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions.

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I'm just a person trapped inside a woman's body.

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If a woman gets nervous, she'll eat or go shopping. A man will attack a country — it's a whole other way of thinking.

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No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.

—Harry Emerson Fosdick

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To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring — it was peace.

—Milan Kundera

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You'd never walk into the forest with the radio blasting and expect wild animals to appear by your side. Yet it never occurs to you to unplug the inner jukebox and get quiet inside so that a natural, organic state of mind can reorganize you and your life from within.

—Shozan Jack Haubner in Zen Confidential: Confessions of a Wayward Monk

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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters daydreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

—Gaston Bachelard

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Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.

—Henrik Ibsen

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