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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.


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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
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ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD Pride renders faith impossible.
ANDREW MURRAY Injustice upon earth renders the justice of of heaven impossible.
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL Humor and joy contribute to my total well-being.
LOUISE L. HAY Life Quotes a Purpose understanding of which renders True Inner Peace.
IRFAN HUSAYN Faith is one of the forces by which men live, and the total absence of it means collapse.
WILLIAM JAMES The total cost is impossible to calculate at this time.
DAN MICHAELIS You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. -Colette.
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A. S. BYATT "Without a good sense of humor, life gets in the way.”
TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN Humor is a tool to ease the harsh realities of life.
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J.D. SALINGER Work life has taken over normal life, yet it's been stripped of humor, joy and pleasure.
JULIANNE BALMAIN Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.'

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LEWIS CARROLL If you see it's impossible, you may use others' eyes.
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JEAN CLAUDE Death, only, renders hope futile.
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LUIS CORRONS But if we decide contextually specific questions of synonymy on the basis of the total semantic rang...
D.A. CARSON Another thing about pain - it renders you incapable of bullshit.
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SIMONE WEIL The old adage--humor is the best way to make the unbearable bearable--may be true.
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TIM KREIDER If I had but the time and you had but the brain
LEWIS CARROLL A lot of the world seems to repeat itself
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DEYTH BANGER Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
CARL SAGAN Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
WILLIAM COWPER Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
DR. CARL SAGAN Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
TANA FRENCH Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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TERENCE MCKENNA Wellness seeks more than the absence of illness; it searches for new levels of excellence. Beyond an...
GREG ANDERSON My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns.
BRET MICHAELS My love for science and logic are philosophically tempered by an experience of human life that rende...
DAVID L. HATTON You have to have a sense of humor about life to get through it.
KESHA The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.
SAMUEL JOHNSON The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence
SAMUEL JOHNSON No one will deny that the excessive use of alcohol and alcoholic beverages would do more than any ot...
WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE KING Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power ove...
CHARLES DE SECONDAT The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.
CARL SAGAN Without love life is impossible.
DEBASISH MRIDHA He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor.
J.D. SALINGER Where there is kashay, they are all considered heaps of parigraha (worldly possessiveness); whether ...
DADA BHAGWAN A little-known fact: Next to nothing is impossible. Actually, nothing itself is impossible. Nothing ...
DANIEL YOUNGER The absence of pain led to an absence of fear, and the absence of fear led to a disregard for conseq...
VICTORIA SCHWAB Something is not the absence of nothing. Nothing is not the absence of something. SOMETHING IS THE A...
EPHDAN The absence of pain led to an absence of fear, and the absence of fear led to a disregard for conseq...
V.E. SCHWAB Life has three rules: Paradox, Humor, and Change.

- Paradox: Life is a mystery; don't was...
DAN MILLMAN The absence of consensus does not mean an absence of truth
HADLEY ARKES Life is the sum total of our involvement in it with our ourselves.
DAN WALDSCHMIDT You have to approach something with indifference, as if you had no aesthetic emotion. The choice of ...
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CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happines...
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU Life is just so much fun and so filled with humor.
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ELIZABETH FRY My view of life is colored by humor and looking at the best in any situation.
MICHAEL J. FOX Anyone with a sense of humor can see that life is a joke, not a tragedy.
GEORGE SHEEHAN Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.
NEAL A. MAXWELL The absence of symptoms does not guarantee us the absence of diseases.
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DEEPAK CHOPRA Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expr...
STEPHEN LEACOCK Repentance and yearning, and yearning and repentance: this is the total harvest of life.
KHURRAM MURAD Hollywood is like life, you face it with the sum total of your equipment.
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QUENTIN CRISP Forty-two!" yelled Loonquawl. "Is that all you've got to show for seven and a half million years' wo...
DOUGLAS ADAMS But the absence of tears wasn't the same as an absence of feeling.
LISA KLEYPAS Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.
JENNIFER JONES Without faith, love and a good sense of humor, you don't get through much in this life,
ANN JILLIAN He was a larger-than-life figure, with a wicked sense of humor, and a great friend.
SIR RICHARD BRANSON

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