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"The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times."
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"We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter?"

"Isn't it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks."

"We have a solemn pact.' Kaye nodded to Mother and looked over at Em talking to some neighbors. 'If one of us is unconscious in the hospital, the others will make sure it's pulled.''The plug?' Ruth asked.'The chin hair,' said Kaye, eyeing Ruth with some alarm. 'You're off the visitors list. Mother, make a note."

"Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter."

"If you can laugh at yourself, you have already achieved freedom."

"She strong-armed the swinging door and walked through. Straight into an acid flashback.Clara's first reaction was to laugh. She stood stunned for a moment then started to laugh. And laugh. And laugh until she thought she'd piddle. Peter was soon infected and began laughing. And Gamache, who up until this moment had only seen a travesty, smiled, then chuckled, then laughed and within moments was laughing so hard he had to wipe away tears.'Holy horrible taste, Batman,' said Clara to Peter who doubled over, laughing some more.'Solid, man, solid,' he gasped and managed to raise a peace sign before having to put both hands on his knees to support his heaving body."
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"The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are."

"Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children without the help of multiple adults, making for an unsupported life."

"Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which case we feel 107."

"Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy."

"Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld."

"If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you."
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