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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?"


Peter De Vries

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PETER USTINOV We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an i...
PETER KREEFT We rehearse for the big death through the little death of orgasm, through erotic living. Death as tr...
PETER REDGROVE If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and say nothing that simple, but y...
PETER TOWNSEND The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.
PETER SHAFFER That was when it was all made painfully clear to me. When you are a child, there is joy. There is la...
PETER DAVID Elke webpagina van de site heeft een uithangbord waaraan de bezoeker herkent waar hij terecht is gek...
PETER KASSENAAR The world has enough women who know how to be smart. It needs women who are willing to be simple. Th...
PETER MARSHALL Is it possible to love so desperately that life is unbearable? I don't mean unrequited, I mean being...
PETER HELLER Paradoxically one of the greatest advantages of mind maps is that they are seldom needed again. The ...
PETER RUSSELL Anyone who lives in this time is concerned with grottiness.
PETER READING The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.
PETER MCWILLIAMS To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
PETER MCWILLIAMS The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try.
PETER DRUCKER Prayer puts you in touch with the infinite and prepares your mind for the finite.
PETER DANIEL Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.
PETER USTINOV The road to positivity is strewn with the abandoned vehicles of the faint-hearted.
PETER MCWILLIAMS The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to...
PETER USTINOV The camera is a killing chamber, which speeds up the time it claims to be conserving. Like coffins e...
PETER CONRAD Peace is no more than a dream as long as we need the comfort of the clan.
PETER NICOLS Integrity is not a 90 percent thing, not a 95 percent thing; either you have it or you don't.
PETER SCOTESE There used to be a real me, but I had it surgically removed.
PETER SELLER