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Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.

Henri Bergson

ACT as men of thought; THINK as men of action.
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Act Action Man Thinking
The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that’s laughable is vanity.
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Errors Laughter Mistake Vanity
Action on the move creates its own route, creates to a very great extent the conditions under which it is to be fulfilled and thus baffles all calculation.
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Action Calculation Creation Greatness Move
It seems that laughter needs an echo.
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Echo Laughter Need
Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
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Brain Known Question Reason Science Wisdom
We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.
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Action Artist Expression Freedom
Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.
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Borrow Freedom Movement Restore Spirit
The universe… is a machine for the making of gods.
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God Machine Universe
There is nothing [that] disarms us like laughter.
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Guard Laughter Ourselves
Only those ideas that are least truly ours can be adequately expressed in words.
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Expression Ideas Ourselves True Word
One can always reason with reason.
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Oneself Reason
The movement of the stream is distinct from the river bed, although it must adopt its winding course.
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Movement River Source Stream Wind
Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.
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Construction Faculty Instrument Intelligence Organization Perfection
A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.
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Cosmos Different Independent Meaning Quite Series Situation
Our laughter is always the laughter of a group.
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Group Laughter Ourselves
Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.
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Appearance Civilization Sex

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