When I was young, my father had a serious heart attack. He survived, but we lost our house … - Emo Philips

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I'm not an atheist. I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books.

Emo Philips

When I was young, my father had a serious heart attack. He survived, but we lost our house and car. Under the Canadian Medicare system, though, we would have kept the house and car and would have just had to pay the inheritance tax.

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They have a sign at the beach, "no glass bottles". I think that's so the other sand particles don't feel like underachievers.

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I lent a friend of mine $10,000 for plastic surgery and now I don't know what he looks like.

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