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Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.

James Thurber

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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Children Position Thinking Woman
I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.
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Beginning Method Myself Open Word
A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.
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Burden Hands Worth
The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because they’ve been through it too. The closest thing to humor is tragedy.
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Laughter People Tragedy
A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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Act Creation Fake Misunderstanding Thinking
I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.
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Animal Dog Myself Thinking
Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.
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Insight Tragedy Wisdom Writing
I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unreasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night.
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Cleaning Hands Night Reason
I don’t believe the writer should know too much where he’s going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprintold man propaganda.
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Believe Man Myself Old Writing
Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.
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Break Up Love Yourself
Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.
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Progress Right Time
The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.
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Allow Fear Humor Nation Possession Regard Suspect Writing
History is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an actor, but it is becoming harder and harder, in our time, to tell government from show business.
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Business Evidence Government History Ourselves Time
The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn’t get lost enough.
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Enough Generation Lost Trouble
Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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Angel Lifespan Time
Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
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Marriage Mutual Thinking

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