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I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.

—Steven Wright

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Vote early and vote often.

—Al Capone

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We're actors - we're the opposite of people.

—Tom Stoppard

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You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech.

—George Burns

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That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

—A. Whitney Brown

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Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

—Aristotle

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

—Bill Nye

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Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

—Colette

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A joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart in your hand like a cheap umbrella.

—Dick Clark

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If you're at school and you're not that bright or good-looking or popular or whatever, and one day you say something and someone laughs, well, you sort of grab onto it, don't you? you think, well I run funny and I've got this stupid big face and big thighs and no-one fancies me, but at least I can make people laugh. And It's such a nice feeling, making someone laugh, that maybe you get a bit reliant on it. Like, if you're not funny then you're not... anything.

—Dwight D. Eisenhower

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There's nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.

—James Thurber

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The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

—Larry Gelbart

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The best defence against misguided arrogance is a keen sense of humour.

—Mary Hirsch

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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.

—Mel Brooks

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Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.

—Mel Brooks

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