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I cannot say who, precisely, came up with the idea of a Stone Age family.


Joseph Barbera

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JOSEPH JOUBERT Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its fou...
JOSEPH FARRELL People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life... I think that what we're really seeki...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL It seems to have had an order, to have been composed by someone, and those events that were merely a...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Life, the way it really is, is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.
JOSEPH BRODSKY What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.
JOSEPH BRODSKY I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
JOSEPH HELLER Follow your bliss.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL The notion of this universe, its heavens, hells, and everything within it, as a great dream dreamed ...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out in...
JOSEPH CONRAD How delightful to find a friend in everyone.
JOSEPH BRODSKY Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
JOSEPH ADDISON Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily diss...
JOSEPH ADDISON The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
JOSEPH ADDISON The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment,...
JOSEPH ADDISON