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Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully. - Max Eastman

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully. – Max Eastman

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Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh on the right end. – Max Eastman

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The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them. – Max Eastman

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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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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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My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor. – Manuel Puig

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Even celebrities, most people have a sense of humor. Most of the people we meet who weve done on the show, like it. – Matt Stone

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