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Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.

James Thurber

Reason is 6/7 of treason.
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Death One Liner Reason Treason
All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.
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Death Learning Man Strive Wisdom
I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.
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Born Children Myself
There are two kinds of light – the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
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Deep Glow Illumination Kind Light
Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.
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Enough Hard Time Man Simplicity Trouble Truth
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
Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.
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Chaos Emotional Humor Remember Tranquility
A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.
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Probability Thinking Worth
There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.
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Believe Born Leadership Poet
I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.
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Children Position Thinking Woman
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.
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Cost Greatness Humor Serious Thinking
Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.
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Attention Beautiful One Liner
Looks can be deceiving; it’s eating that’s believing.
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Appearance Believe Eat One Liner
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
She wasn’t much to look at but she was something to think about.
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Instagram Captions Philosophy Thinking
The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.
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Brutal Difference Ourselves

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