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The fundamental difference between the mystery story and the ghost story is the fact that a mystery demands a solution for its effectiveness; a ghost story is necessarily unsolvable; the reader must be willing to accept the fact that nothing is proved.

Bennett Cerf

The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.
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Blessed Happiness Laughter
The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.
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Detroit Lasts Night
Oratory is the art of making a loud noise sound like a deep thought.
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Art Deep Teaching Thought
Good manners: The noise you don’t make when you’re eating soup.
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Cooking Food Soup
Football season: The only time of the year when a man can walk down the street with a blond on one arm and a blanket on the other without encountering raised eyebrows.
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Football Men Years
The Atomic Age is here to stay – but are we?
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Age Peace War
Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.
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Gross Ignorance Ordinary
Banquet: a plate of cold, hairy chicken and artificially coloured green peas completely surrounded by dreary speeches and appeals for donations.
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Cooking Food Speech
There is a mass of people, we might as well admit, who if they weren’t watching television, would be doing absolutely nothing else.
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Else Nothing People Television
Politicians are like ships: noisiest when lost in a fog.
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Fog Politician Ships
One of the troubles of the day, observes Mr. C.N. Peac, is that once we came upon the little red schoolhouse, whereas now we come upon the little-read school boy.
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Education School Teaching
In a notable family called Stein There were Gertrude, and Ep, and then Ein. Gert’s writing was hazy, Ep’s statues were crazy, And nobody understood Ein.
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Crazy Poetry Writing
There once was a student named Bessor Whose knowledge grew lessor and lessor. It at last grew so small He knew nothing at all, And today he’s a college professor!
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College Teaching Today
I think the right to read, is one of our inherent rights, and I think that people in America today are intelligent enough to decide for themselves what they want to read. Without being told, by self-appointed people, you must not read this, or you cannot read this.
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Intelligent Rights Thinking
The fundamental difference between the mystery story and the ghost story is the fact that a mystery demands a solution for its effectiveness; a ghost story is necessarily unsolvable; the reader must be willing to accept the fact that nothing is proved.
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Differences Effectiveness Ghost Stories
Fame – anyone who says he doesn’t like it is crazy
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Crazy Fame Madness

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