"Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility."
-James Thurber
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"The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.“
-James Thurber
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"The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it."
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"Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness."
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"All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why."
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"The wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature."
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"Love is what you've been through with somebody."
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"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."
-George Orwell
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"Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you."
-Jim Rohn
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"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
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"It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream."
-Edgar Allan Poe
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"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present."
-Marcus Aurelius
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"Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart."
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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