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"It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor."
Humor
"I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while."
Lie
"The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness."
Art
"Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest."
Lie
"Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind."
Choice
"Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance."
Art
"A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke."
History
"It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process."
Life
"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."
Goal
"Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails."
Dogs
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"We must stop expecting the government to play the role of national transformation why we sit down and watch."
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Personal Development
"Not everybody that says that you suck is a hater. There are people who suck."
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Personal Development
"The public thinks big, sensible, measured thoughts while people run around doing silly things."
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Personal Development
"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly, the rich have always objected to being governed at all."
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Personal Development
"Popular medicine and popular morality belong together and ought not to be evaluated so differently as they still are: both are the most dangerous pseudo-sciences."
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Personal Development
"It takes all sorts of people to make a world, as I've often heard, but I think there are some who could be spared,' Anne told her reflection in the east gable mirror that night."
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Personal Development
"In too many instances we have settled for a world of our own shaping that is shaping up to be in terrible shape."
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Personal Development
"Most peoples are prisoners of other people's thoughts."
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Personal Development
"Nobody's sane above the law."
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Personal Development
"Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home."
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