"Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance."
-Max Eastman
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"Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails."
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"It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor."
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"Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully."
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"The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them."
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"It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process."
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"In junior high school, I was an object of pure ridicule for my dress, withdrawal, and asocial manner. Dozens of times, I saw individuals laugh and smile more in ten to fifteen minutes than I did in all my life up to then."
-Arthur Bremer
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"My friends and family, especially my mom and dad, are always saying I should smile more."
-Dillon Casey
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"Beautiful isle of the sea, Smile on the brow of the waters."
-George Cooper
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"When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown."
-Robert Southwell
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"We ought to be beating our chests every day. We ought to look in the mirror, stick out our chests, suck in our bellies, and say, 'Damn, we're Americans,' and smile."
-Jay Garner
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"Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue."
-Sadhu Vaswani
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