"Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility."
-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."
-James Thurber
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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."
-James Thurber
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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."
-James Thurber
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"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."
-James Thurber
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"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved."
-George Sand
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"Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
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"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
-William Shakespeare
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"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy."
-Robert A. Heinlein
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"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt."
-Charles M. Schulz
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