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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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However, we couldn't focus on the films much during the series because we're dumb. Individually we're smart guys, but together we're one big dumb guy, and couldn't concentrate on two things at once.
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Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.
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Humor can help you cope with the unbearable so that you can stay on the bright side of things until the bright side actually comes along.
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Humor does not include sarcasm, invalid irony, sardonicism, innuendo, or any other form of cruelty. When these things are raised to a high point they can become wit, but unlike the French and the English, we have not been much good at wit since the days of Benjamin Franklin.
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Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. It's a way of enticing a reader into a poem so that less funny things can take place later. It really is not an end in itself, but a means to an end.
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Hurricanes are dangerous things, and they're no fun to go through. And if you come out of it in one piece and your house comes out of in one piece, it's no fun living with no electricity for a day or a week, a month, whatever it is. And I speak, unfortunately, from personal experience on that matter.
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Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender.
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I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine.
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I actually feel that personal matters, like religion and spirituality, are things that I really discuss only with intimates. I think it's, in a way, like sexuality, something where it touches upon something very private.
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I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer is not aware of.
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I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them.
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I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them.
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I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and - I can't remember what the third thing is.
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I am a data hound and so I usually end up working on whatever things I can find good data on. The rise of Internet commerce completely altered the amount of information you could gather on company behavior so I naturally drifted toward it.
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I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.
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I am called here to answer before you, but I hear no things laid to my charge.
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I am of an Opinion, in which I am every Day more confirmed by Observation, that Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with Men, or else all the Obligations in the World will not create it. An outward Show may be made to satisfy Decency, and to prevent Reproach; but a real Sense of a kind thing is a Gift of Nature, and never was, nor can be acquired.
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I am worried about our tendency to over invest in things and under invest in people.
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