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humor comedian realizing
Alan Moore Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the Comedian is the only thing that makes sense.
humorous america chinese
David Riesman America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.
humor cat world
Gina Barreca The search for truth can be compared to a cat chasing her tail: frantic in her pursuit, her quarry nevetheless eludes her; despite the fact that all the world can see it's right there, it remains just beyond her reach. It cannot be possessed because, paradoxically, it is already part of her.
humor dying records
Bill Murray Just beat my record for most consecutive days without dying.
humor sense-of-humor righteous
Bertolt Brecht The righteous one has no sense of humor.
humor musician humour
Carolyn Wells musicians rarely have a sense of humour, at least, about themselves.
humor heart sanity
Agnes Repplier Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity ...
humor obscure social
Agnes Repplier Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.
thinking vanity
Charles Caleb Colton None of us are so much praised or censured as we think.
thinking people remember
Charles Caleb Colton A thorough-paced antiquary not only remembers what all other people have thought proper to forget, but he also forgets what all other people think is proper to remember.
thinking greed words-of-wisdom
Charles Dickens "As I think I told you once before," said I, "it is you who have been, in your greed and cunning, against all the world. It may be profitable to you to reflect, in future, that there never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death."
thinking people noses
Charles Dickens I think the Romans must have aggravated one another very much, with their noses. Perhaps, they became the restless people they were, in consequence.
thinking diversity different
Charles Dickens Them which is of other naturs thinks different.
thinking america impossible
Charles Dickens I think it impossible, utterly impossible, for any Englishman to live here [in America], and be happy.
thinking pieces ships
Charles Dickens and it was not until I began to think, that I began fully to know how wrecked I was, and how the ship in which I had sailed was gone to pieces.
thinking light law
Charles Dickens The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings. Viewed by this light it becomes a coherent scheme, and not the monstrous maze the laity are apt to think it. Let them but once clearly perceive that its grand principle is to make business for itself at their expense, and surely they will cease to grumble.
thinking advice
Charles Stewart Parnell Get the advice of everybody whose advice is worth having - they are very few - and then do what you think best yourself.
confusion becoming awake
Chogyam Trungpa Becoming "awake" involves seeing our confusion more clearly.
confusion humanity impossible
Bertolt Brecht Don’t accept the habitual as a natural thing. In times of disorder, of organized confusion, of de-humanized humanity, nothing should seem natural. Nothing should seem impossible to change.
confusion newton mathematics
Benjamin Haydon Newton's health, and confusion to mathematics.
confusion dealing opens people sure whenever
Gail Shearer Whenever you have confusion like this in the marketplace, it opens up opportunities for fraud. People will really have to make sure they're dealing with reputable entities.
confusion let-it-go goes-on
Charles de Lint Let it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference.
confusion long unity
Charles Ives An apparent confusion, if lived with long enough, may become orderly . . . A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the day's unity
confusion confusing use
Charles Francis Richter Lately there have been complaints that the use of the magnitude scale is confusing, or at least the reporting of magnitudes in the newspapers 'confuses the public.
confusion house significant
Bob Marley It is better to live on the house top than to live in a house full of confusion.
confusion determined looked vehicle whether
Sheriff Stankus Whether it was confusion or an oversight, all I know is everything was looked into and investigated and it was determined the vehicle was not stolen.