"The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child."
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"Laughter is to life what shock absorbers are to automobiles. It won't take the potholes out of the road, but it sure makes the ride smoother"
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"I hoped that grief was similar to the other emotions. That it would end, the way happiness did. Or laughter."
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"Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least."
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"When we begin to love and respect Great Mother Nature's gift to us of gayness, we'll discover that the bondage of our childhood and adolescence in the trials and tribulations of neitherness was actually an apprenticeship for teaching her children new cutting edges of consciousness and social change. In stunning paradox, our neitherness is our talisman, our fairie wand, our gift we bring to the hetero world to....transform their pain into healings; ...transform their tears to laughter: ...transform their hand-me-downs to visions of loveliness."
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"Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul."
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"There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor."
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"Laughter is no enemy to learning"
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"Self-determination has to mean that the leader is your individual gut, and heart, and mind or we're talking about power, again, and its rather well-known impurities. Who is really going to care whether you live or die and who is going to know the most intimate motivation for your laughter and your tears is the only person to be trusted to speak for you and to decide what you will or will not do."
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"We can never untangle all the woes in other people's lives. We can't produce miracles overnight. But we can bring a cup of cool water to a thirsty soul, or a scoop of laughter to a lonely heart."
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"In our house we don't take ourselves too seriously, and laughter is the best form of unity, I think, in a marriage."
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"Children keep us in check. Their laughter prevents our hearts from hardening. Their dreams ensure we never lose our drive to make ours a better world. They are the greatest disciplinarians known to mankind."
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"I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways."
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"The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion."
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"you must be gay; only thus can life be endured. I speak from experience for I have had to endure much, and have only been able to endure it because I have always laughed whenever I had the chance."
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"Laughter not only makes the journey endurable and even enjoyable, it also helps keep us healthy.... Be like a child: learn to laugh more!"
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"With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. And let my liver rather heat with wine, than my heart cool with mortifying groans."
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"She lifted up her hand and from the ring that she wore there issued a great light that illuminated her alone and left all else dark. She stood before Frodo seeming now tall beyond measurement, and beautiful beyond enduring, terrible and worshipful. Then she let her hand fall, and the light faded, and suddenly she laughed again, and lo! she was shrunken: a slender elf-woman, clad in simple white whose gentle voice was soft and sad."
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"Laugh my friend, for laughter ignites a fire within the pit of your belly and awakens your being."
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"Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement."
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