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"Sun worship is fairly simple. There's no mystery, no miracles, no pageantry, no one asks for money, there are no songs to learn, and we don't have a special building where we all gather once a week to pare compare clothing."
"As far as I'm concerned, humans have not yet come up with a belief that's worth believing."
"If you have a legal problem, guess how you determine whether or not you need a lawyer. You see a lawyer. Isn't that weird?"
"The humorous look of children is perhaps the most endearing of all the bonds that hold the Cosmos together."
"...it is not necessary to the child to awaken to the sense of the strange and humorous by giving a man a luminous nose...to the child it is sufficiently strange and humorous to have a nose at all."
"We admire Chaucer for his sturdy English wit.... But though it is full of good sense and humanity, it is not transcendent poetry.For picturesque description of persons it is, perhaps, without a parallel in English poetry; yet it is essentially humorous, as the loftiest genius never is."
"What I've always done as an entertainer is try to come up with things that people will find interesting, or compelling, or humorous."
"Always obey your parents - when they are present."
"It is no harm to be an ass, if one is content to bray and not kick."
"I'm pushing 60 years of age...and that's enough exercise for me."
"But soft you, the fair Ophelia: Ope not thy ponderous and marble jaws, But get thee to a nunnery - go!"
"There are several kinds of stories, but only one difficult kind-the humorous."
"If you're a fat person - and especially if you're a woman - at all stages of your life you'll get abuse for it, so you have to work out a way of dealing with it. The best way is to be humorous about it - that defuses any tension."
"In leadership we teach we teach;Don't send your ducks to eagle school because it wont help.Ducks finishes eagle school,sees his first rabbit, makes him a friend."
"Every man is as God made him, ay, and often worse."
"There is, in fact, no law or government at all; and it is wonderful how well things go on without them."
