![The ultimate objective [of comedy] is to get a laugh, so if you can get a laugh off the fact that you did not get a laugh, then you've kinda saved the moment. Other professions don't have that luxury. You don't want to hear a brain surgeon say, "Man, am I so stupid! I cut on the wrong side of your head!!"](/assets/img/quote-photos/the-ultimate-objective-of-comedy-is-to-get-a-laugh-so-if-you-can-get-a-laugh-o.jpg)
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Everyone acts stupid at some time in order to be loved. Tim O'Brien
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People do not read stupidities with impunity. Victor Hugo
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You can't fix stupid. Ron White
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stupid drinking men
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cutting balls done
A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing through his chest from shoulder to shoulder. There was no more to be done for him and I left him to his rest. I have never mended that hole in my sleeve. Clara Barton
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cutting spending
Cut back your spending now. Suze Orman
cutting ideas creative
The creative phase of an idea coincides with the period during which it insists, cantankerously, on its boundaries, on what makes it different; but an idea becomes false and impotent when it seeks reconciliation, at cut-rate prices, with other ideas. Susan Sontag
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The architecture per se isn't at fault. The more important factor, in my view, is the political neglect of these areas, which have essentially been cut off from other neighborhoods. Rem Koolhaas
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Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to produce a better article. Ross Perot
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And man will go on. Man, not men. Ayn Rand
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That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, most of it bad. Calvin Coolidge
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The seminary programs will help you as a young man or woman to lay a foundation for happiness and success in life. Richard G. Scott
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Ah! Up then from the ground sprang I And hailed the earth with such a cry As is not heard save from a man Who has been dead, and lives again. About the trees my arms I wound; Like one gone mad I hugged the ground; I raised my quivering arms on high; I laughed and laughed into the sky... Edna St. Vincent Millay
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What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter. Terry Pratchett
men skills littles
A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery. Thomas Fuller
men differences sin
Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.