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The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.

Bennett Cerf

TV’s sameness has destroyed many things, such as the American urge toward independent thought.
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Country Independent Urges
Politicians are like ships: noisiest when lost in a fog.
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Fog Politician Ships
For me, a hearty “belly laugh” is one of the beautiful sounds in the world.
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Beautiful Laughing Sound
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
Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don’t recognize you.
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Age Birthday Middle
One of the greatest threats facing book publishing, and the entire country for that matter, is censorship.
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Book Country Matter
Fame – anyone who says he doesn’t like it is crazy
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Crazy Fame Madness
Oratory is the art of making a loud noise sound like a deep thought.
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Art Deep Teaching Thought
The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night. Brahms lost.
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Detroit Lasts Night
Do I believe in ghosts? Of course I do. So do you. Deep in the souls of the most sophisticated of us is lurking a fear of the supernatural which all the discoveries of scientists cannot eradicate.
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Believe Discovery Soul
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 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
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
Good manners: The noise you don’t make when you’re eating soup.
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Cooking Food Soup
Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.
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Gross Ignorance Ordinary
The fact that we don’t read more books in America can be traced squarely to the fact that we have newspapers that are about a hundred times as big as the newspapers anywhere else.
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Book Country Facts

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