"It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh."

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"It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh."

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"I love the ride of life."

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"Better to be dirty than dead."

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"Happiness is not defined by how much money you possess."

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"I am giving my all in all to the sacred moments."

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"I will do my very best while there is still grace."

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"Hope in the heart is the escape in any hardship."

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"One of the most beautiful words is touch, it exquisitely represents our need to prove ourselves that we are not in a dream!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"There is no good day or a bad day, but our perception makes it so."

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"Gray hair is the glory of a long life."

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"I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus."

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"The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth."

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"This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life."

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"I love the ride of life."

"Better to be dirty than dead."

"Happiness is not defined by how much money you possess."

"I am giving my all in all to the sacred moments."

"I will do my very best while there is still grace."

"Hope in the heart is the escape in any hardship."

"One of the most beautiful words is touch, it exquisitely represents our need to prove ourselves that we are not in a dream!"

"There is no good day or a bad day, but our perception makes it so."

"Gray hair is the glory of a long life."

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"History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that."

"Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore."

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"Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century."

"Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it."

"I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus."

"The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth."

"Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream."

"The orgasm has replaced the cross as the focus of longing and fulfillment."

"This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life."