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    05 October 2009
    “Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.”
    William Hazlitt

    laughter tears human condition

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    04 September 2009
    “I’ve always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, ‘Ain’t that the truth.’”
    Quincy Jones

    laughter

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    31 August 2009
    “Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.”
    Bob Newhart

    moving on laughter distance

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    02 May 2009
    “Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I’ve had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you must not forget to laugh.”
    Katharine Hepburn

    laughter life

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    02 December 2008
    “I never laugh until I’ve had my coffee.”
    Clark Gable (via scout)

    motto laughter routine

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    06 October 2008
    “When you look up at the sky at night, since I’ll be living on one of them, since I’ll be laughing on one of them, for you, it’ll be as if all the stars are laughing. You’ll have stars that can laugh!”
    Antoine de Saint Exupéry, The Little Prince

    book laughter separation

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    12 August 2008
    “He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor.”
    J.D. Salinger, For Esmé with Love and Squalor

    laughter book