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"If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny."
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"Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else."
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"If I studied all my life, I couldn't think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress."
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"It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."
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"Leno, Conan. They are both really funny. They really know how to land one."
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"I don't think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time."
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"Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public's desire for him to be funny simply because he's so good at it."
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"We have actors from other films, from 'Baywatch,' and so on, and these people are looking exactly the opposite of what they are. The transformations were so smooth, and so funny to watch, it was unbelievable."
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"I walked in thinking, 'I have ten movies under my belt and now they want me to go back to making commercials?' I said, if I do that, I want it to be funny."
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"It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music."
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"This is going to sound really funny. I have a poster of Zac Efron on my wall! I think every girl has a poster of him in their room so, why not join the club!"
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"Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off."
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"Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours."
American

"Inequality can have a bad downside, but equality, for its part, sure does get in the way of coordination."
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"Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are not bogged down by rules for equality, but have a firmly defined system of relative status and responsible command."
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"It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on."
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"Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive."
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"I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too."
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"The theory of cultural bias... is the idea that a culture is based on a particular form of organization. It can't be transplanted except to another variant of that organization."
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"Inside a religious body you get sects and hierarchies, inside an information network you get bazaars and cathedrals, it is the same, call them what you like. They survive by pointing the finger of blame at each other."
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"The natural response of the old-timers is to build a strong moral wall against the outside. This is where the world starts to be painted in black and white, saints inside, and sinners outside the wall."
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