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“In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.”— George Herbert
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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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“Gags die, humor doesn't.”— Jack Benny
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“All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.”— Fred Allen
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“Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the very instant we are laughing.”— Allen Klein
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“Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.”— Sid Caesar
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“Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.”— Allen Klein
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“Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.”— Max Eastman
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“Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun.”— Flip Wilson
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“What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.”— Bernard Williams
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“Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.”— Aung San Suu Kyi
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“The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.”— Peter De Vries
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“Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.”— William James
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“There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.”— Robert Benchley
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“Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their earthly pedestals.”— Agnes Repplier
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“Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.”— Edward de Bono
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“The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.”— Jacob August Riis
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“One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.”— Larry Gelbart
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“When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.”— Thomas W. Higginson
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“I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.”— Frank A. Clark
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“One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor.”— Ralph Fiennes
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“This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.”— Lin Yutang
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“Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.”— Thomas W. Higginson
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“There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.”— Thomas W. Higginson
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“Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties, humor is the Teflon coating.”— Laurel Lee