"I have a mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it."
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"The advertising world had space men in it before spacemen existed."
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"Television is the triumph of machine over people."
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"Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making."
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"If all the fools in this world should die, lordly God how lonely I should be."
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"Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?"
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"A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law."
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"Laughter without a tinge of philosophy is but a sneeze of humor. Genuine humor is replete with wisdom."
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"Humorists of the 'mere' sort cannot survive. Humor is only a fragrance, a decoration."
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"One parody is worth a thousand polemics."
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"When you lose the power to laugh, you lose your power to think straight."
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"Sir, this is a unique dog. He does not live by tooth or fang. He respects the right of cats to be cats although he doesn't admire them. He turns his steps rather than disturb an earnest caterpillar. His greatest fear is that someone will point out a rabbit and suggest that he chase it. This is a dog of peace and tranquility."
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"I really wouldn't want to live in America. I found New York claustrophobic and dirty. I missed England when I was there, simple things like smells and the British sense of humor."
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"Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly."
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"The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence."
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"All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously."
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"Whoever wants to be a Christian should tear the eyes out of his reason."
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"In Switzerland, on a high mountain, not far from Lucerne, there is a lake they call Pilate's Pond, which the Devil has fixed upon as one of the chief residences of his evil spirits."
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"As for the demented, I hold it certain that all beings deprived of reason are thus afflicted only by the Devil."
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"If I like it, I say it's mine. If I don't I say it's a fake."
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