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"Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind."
Choice

"Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails."
Dogs

"The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them."
Man

"Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully."
Humor

"A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything."
Liberal

"Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together."
Society

"The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness."
Art

"People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo."
People

"A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go."
Goal
