"The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. Bit the combination is locked up in the safe."

Vries, Peter De on Ecology
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"Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us."

Vries, Peter De on Food and Eating
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"When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones."

Vries, Peter De on Home
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"We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. It may be the very recognition of all men as our brothers that accounts for the sibling rivalry, and even enmity, we have toward so many of them."

Vries, Peter De on Human Fellowship
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"Life is a zoo in a jungle."

Vries, Peter De on Life and Living
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"The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds -- they mature slowly."

Vries, Peter De on Marriage
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"The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults."

Vries, Peter De on Marriage
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"The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character."

Vries, Peter De on Marriage
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"There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you."

Vries, Peter De on Parents and Parenting
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"Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked."

Vries, Peter De on Popularity
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"The rich aren't like us; they pay less taxes."

Vries, Peter De on Riches
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"It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us."

Vries, Peter De on Salvation
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"Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask, What's in it for me?"

Vries, Peter De on Universe
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"You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues. Could you say we were guilty of Noel Cowardice?"

Vries, Peter De on Wit
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"I love being a writer, what I can't stand is the paperwork."

Vries, Peter De on Writers and Writing
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"I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best -- it's all they'll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money -- provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don't need it."

Vries, Peter De on Colleges and Universities
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"Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff -- it is a palliative rather than a remedy."

Vries, Peter De on Confession
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"It is the final proof of Gods omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us. "

Vries, Peter De on Uncategorised
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"Let us hope, I prayed, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring. "

Vries, Peter De on Uncategorised
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