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"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."
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"It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor."
Humor
"I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while."
Lie
"Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest."
Lie
"Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind."
Choice
"Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance."
Art
"A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke."
History
"It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process."
Life
"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
"Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails."
Dogs
"A smile is the universal welcome."
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"What is your big project in the New Year? You don't have one? No dream, no reality! Get a big dream for yourself now to get a big reality tomorrow!"
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Personal Development
"First visualize your goal in your mind. Then have a leap of faith, and let your passion guide you throughout the process."
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Personal Development
"Give as much as importance to your goal as you give it to your first girlfriend, with that much importance your girlfriend might still leave you but your goal will definitely come to you."
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Personal Development
"The way forward is by building political support for republican and democratic objectives across Ireland and by winning support for these goals internationally."
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Personal Development
"Only because The Runaways were my baby and there's no reason to get it back together except to totally have fun. If that's not the goal, then I don't want to do it."
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Personal Development
"A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at."
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Personal Development
"As for goals, I don't set myself those anymore. I'm not one of these 'I must have achieved this and that by next year' kind of writers. I take things as they come and find that patience and persistence tend to win out in the end."
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Personal Development
"My goal was to play in the NHL, because that is the best hockey in the world."
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Personal Development
"I hope to be around past the 90's. I don't want to just be categorized as one of this era. My goal is to have a career that stands."
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Personal Development
"Maybe the mistakes have looked worse because they led to goals."
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Personal Development
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