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Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.


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Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
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VICTOR BORGE Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was sta...
LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN Needle in a haystack's easy - just bring a magnet."

Eliot stared witheringly at Hardison....
KEITH R.A. DECANDIDO A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to app...
JESSAMYN WEST A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to ap...
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JESSAMYN WEST [To some youth, playing with gender identity and roles is as much about fun and self-expression as a...
CAITLIN RYAN Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.
AGNES REPPLIER I didn't think that anything is beyond humor - not profane humor, but a good, honest approach to...
MORT SAHL Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of Humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no...
MARK TWAIN Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no h...
MARK TWAIN There are 11 million people living and working in the United States. This bill ultimately does nothi...
CECILIA MUNOZ If you believe in yourself anything is possible.
MILEY CYRUS Today A woman is one who tries to bring a man down. A man is one who has to keep that woman in check...
APURVA GAGLANI It is so fascinating that when after a hard stressful day we calm our mind and release the stress fr...
GARY F EVANS... Some people do it with irony and humor. Some people do it earnestly. Some people are ashamed of havi...
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GARY F EVANS... One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Everywhere I go I see increasing evidence of people swirling about in a human cesspit of their own m...
NORMAN ANGELL Everywhere I go I see increasing evidence of people swirling about in a human cesspit of their own m...
JAMES ANDERTON just because theres a goalie, doesnt mean you cant score
BRADLEY ADAM HENDERSON The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where doe...
ALICE JAMES Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more th...
LIONEL TRILLING History teachers help children climb mountains.
JUST IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS Someday you'll remember what I said and you'll thank me for it."

Francie wished adults wo...
BETTY SMITH Clarabelle...Clarabelle... You worked as Kenspeckle Grouse's assistant, did you not?'
'One of t...
DEREK LANDY My dad was fascinated with sundials. He photographed hundreds of them and wrote a book about them. H...
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NICHOLAS RYAN LAYMON I felt a bit silly giving this advice to a girl who regularly fought monsters with golden swords, bu...
RICK RIORDAN To travel is to discover that human beings everywhere are human beings.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to...
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MARCUS GARVEY I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusion...
BOB DYLAN I like humor: the sort of gentle humor that points out human foibles.
ED GREENWOOD A life that partakes even a little of friendship, love, irony, humor, parenthood, literature, and mu...
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ELISE ANDREW The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates h...
AI WEIWEI If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.
LEWIS CARROLL I am Trella the victorious leader of the Force of Sheep rebellion. Yes the name sounds ridiculous, a...
MARIA V. SNYDER Did you know you just put the peel in the pan and the potatoes down the waste disposal?' he enquired...
KIM LAWRENCE Surely,' I said, 'you don't think that you are going to die because you dreamed you saw your old fat...
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HARUKI MURAKAMI Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part.
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN It is strange being in a crowd where no one knows your face or cares for your purpose. In Lykos, I w...
PIERCE BROWN It's more of a feel-good bill than anything else. The bill does nothing to reduce our dependence on ...
DAVID PURSELL They just don't belong in that bill.
CHARLES GRASSLEY This instant is the only time there is.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES I am never upset for the reason I think.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Teach only love for that is what you are.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Only my condemnation injures me.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Only your mind can produce fear.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Master Dung’s study was silent. So silent, in fact, that one might have been able to hear a gnat p...
SORIN SUCIU Generally, it is human endeavour to have young people lead, and you see that in public life in the U...
SALMAN KHURSHID The irony of collective ownership is that it spurs more selfishness than does private ownership.
ERIC ROBERT MORSE The British really treasure their sense of humor and they have cultivated a sense of irony that, I t...
ALEX BOESE anything else?
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LARRY JUST As I write, I control my anxiety and anguish thanks to the invaluable aid of irony and humor. But ev...
ENRIQUE VILA-MATAS There is no simple explanation for anything important any of us do, and the human tragedy, or the hu...
HUGH MACLENNAN Ontologically, chocolate raises profoundly disturbing questions: Does not chocolate offer natural re...
DAVID AUGSBURGER The problem is that it's hard to aim a rifle when your heart is pounding, which points to an irony o...
SEBASTIAN JUNGER Being present is being connected to All Things.
S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. Foolery... does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Maybe there is no better novel in the world than Denton Welch's In Youth Is Pleasure. Just holding i...
JOHN WATERS Love is the root of all happiness and all sorrow and theres not much in between.
CHASE KITCHENS There's gonna be a bill passed sooner or later that's gonna draw a line. We have to just think about...
VING RHAMES It's cool to have something that has a lot of inside BC humor, but can also relate to college studen...
JOE SABIA It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is ...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is ...
GEORG C. LICHTENBERG What there is in this world, I think, is a tendency for human errors to level themselves like water ...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER You really are a chameleon, aren't you? Fitting in wherever you go.

"Aren't we all?" she ...
SUZANNE PALMIERI It's started to suck a lot of our profits right out of the business. We have to pay not only a gas b...
LEO LUCIER I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER Taking into account the public's regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in.
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SORIN SUCIU Junction nineteen! Una, she came off at Junction nineteen! You've added an hour to your journey befo...
HELEN FIELDING In certain circumstances, basically shit ones, it’s fight or flight. With Tommy it’s always frig...
TERRY WEIBLE MURPHY I have to own up and say that, much as I love my PowerBook, which now does about 97.8 percent of wha...
DOUGLAS ADAMS It's maybe more irony than anything else.
RANDY STAFFORD I don't think there's anything unique about human intellience. All the nuerons in the brain that mak...
BILL GATES I don't think there's anything unique about human intelligence. All the neurons in the brain that ma...
BILL GATES I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Even Lot might have been mistaken. But that’s what he promised ‘em – his virgin daughters, you...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN God is the strength in which I trust." Lesson 47, A Course In Miracles
HELEN SCHUCMAN There isn't an hour of my life without you in it. I mend the boats, test them and all the while the ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS I love Sell Out, I think it's great. I love the jingles. The whole thing as an album is a wonder...
ROGER DALTREY Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
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BILL GATES Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.
BILL GATES Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it.
BILL GATES For a highly motivated learner, it's not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made ...
BILL GATES In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like cust...
BILL GATES Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy.
BILL GATES People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People f...
BILL GATES By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.
BILL GATES Innovation is moving at a scarily fast pace.
BILL GATES Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness.
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