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Max Eastman

"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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"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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"Look down the road I'm traveling and you will see my goal, it's there on the path. Probably closer than it appears. Life tends to roll that way."

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"Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you."

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"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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"Goal..., let's see this year how far I can reach... and the year which is comming it will be a number above the goal number."

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"Think for now.... when you reach where you wanted, think there and there and finally you will be there where you wanted."

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"Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal."

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"Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy."

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"It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion."

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