Quote by Mark Twain
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. – Mark Twain

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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained. – Mark Twain

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Life
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Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. – Mark Twain

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Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words. – Dorothy Parker

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I think superheroes are heroes with flaws, and in their flaws, there is a sense of humor. – Peter Segal

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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain. – Edward de Bono

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Using no control and using humor will build a relationship and make a dent to where the client puts the counselor in their quality world and then begins to relate and seek out the counselor. Effective therapy begins with the acceptance of the therapist into the clients quality world. – William Glasser

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An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination. – Eduard Hanslick

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For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture. – Sarah Bernhardt

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Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it includes the state of the body it includes the whole of society – as thought is passing back and forth between people in a process by which thought evolved from ancient times. – David Bohm

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The history of an oppressed people is hidden in the lies and the agreed myth of its conquerors. – Meridel Le Sueur

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