"Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility."
-James Thurber
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"Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.“
-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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"Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight."
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"It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people to focus your energies on answers - not excuses."
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"Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be."
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"Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger."
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"Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain."
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"The greatest remedy for anger is delay."
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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