"Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun."

Humor, Observation, Truth, Wisdom

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"Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun."

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"Your party kicked so much ass!Even though you suck so much! It's like, instead of blood, your heart pumps liquid suck! But thanks for the beer!"

John Green, American Author

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George Eliot, British Author

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"CHARTERIS [unfolding his arms in terror] No, please. Dont. As a philosopher, it's my business to tell other people the truth; but it's not their business to tell it to me. I dont like it: it hurts."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"How was I supposed to know 'lucked out' means 'I got screwed over' in Australian?"

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"I realized women and humor were linked very closely."

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Pawan Mishra, Indian Author

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Albert Einstein, German Scientist

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"Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone."

Patience

"No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now."

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"People become concerned with being more humble than other people."

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"Working rightly, the brain is the highest form of "instinctual wisdom." Thus it should work like the homing instinct of pigeons and the formation of the foetus in the womb - without verbalizing the process of knowing "how" it does it. The self-conscious brain, like the self-conscious heart, is a disorder, and manifests itself in the acute feeling of separation between "I" and my experience."

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"If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly."

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"The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention."

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"A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter."

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"Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth."

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