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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

James Thurber

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
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Angry Awareness Fear Future Past
Comedy has to be done en clair. You can’t blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
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Clear Comedy Famous Imagination Point
There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
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Mathematics Safety
The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
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Cake Dangerous Food Marriage One Liner Sarcasm
The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody’s guess.
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Future Guess Past Sound
Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.
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Company Crowd Party Travel Wanderer
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
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Funny Himself Person Smart World
Americans want to go to heaven without dying.
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Death Deep Heaven Hypocrisy Sarcasm
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
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Answer Better Known Question
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
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Understand Wisdom Woman Yourself
A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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Probability Thinking Worth
If you wonder which is the stronger sex, watch which one twists the other around her little finger.
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Herself Man Sex Strong Woman Wonder
Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.
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Achievement Character Expression Humor Laughter Separate
I write humor the way a surgeon operates, because it is a livelihood, because I have a great urge to do it, because many interesting challenges are set up, and because I have the hope it may do some good.
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Goodness Hope Humor Interest Operate Surgeon Writing
Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.
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Angel Lifespan Time
Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised
JAMES THURBER

Achievement Advice Art Man

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