"Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter."
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"O sweet September, thy first breezes bring The dry leaf's rustle and the squirrel's laughter, The cool fresh air whence health and vigor spring And promise of exceeding joy hereafter."
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"Nothing brings on jealousy like laughter."
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"This is the true joy of life-the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap-heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances."
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"Laughter is poison to fear."
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"In the town of Ravella, where I have a house, when the Supreme Court said that an act of sodomy, as they describe it, could not be committed between a man and his wife, the entire square burst into laughter."
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"Man is the artificer of his own happiness."
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"During the darkest days of the Revolutionary War, the Continental Congress and George Washington - I call him the first George W. - (laughter and applause) - urged citizens to pray and to give thanks and to ask for God's protection."
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"There was a German philosopher who is very well known, his name was Immanuel Kant, and he said there are two things that don’t have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter. Don’t have to mean anything that is, in order to give us deep pleasure."
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"You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same."
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"A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction."
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"I grew up in a house where there was lots of teasing and language play and laughter; it was very important. When I was a teenager, you wouldn't go to a bar and find lots of televisions everywhere. People were talking. Talk was the mental fire you would gather around in the evening. It occupied a big part of your existence."
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"Over the long term, the eclipse rate of great civilizations being overtaken is 100%. So you know how it's going to end. (Laughter) I'm more optimistic about the staying power of what's good in this country. But just because you have a wonderful spouse doesn't mean you should treat her badly. You have the feeling that some of the old virtues [that made this country great] are lessening. But there's so much good and so much strength left that I would not expect this country to suddenly founder."
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"I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit."
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"Laughter is eternity if joy is real."
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"I have heard articulate speech produced by sunlight I have heard a ray of the sun laugh and cough and sing! … I have been able to hear a shadow, and I have even perceived by ear the passage of a cloud across the sun's disk."
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"There is very little success where there is very little laughter."
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"Happiness is activity."
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"If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence."
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"Laughter is a bodily exercise, precious to Health"
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