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

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

Other quotes by Max Eastman

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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Laughter
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Max Eastman
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It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor. – Max Eastman

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Humor
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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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Hope
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Other Quotes from
Humor
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself – with a smile. – J. B. Priestley

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Humor

If I ever have sex with someone I might be able to develop a sense of humor. – Kate Beckinsale

Category:
Humor

As a person, he was wonderful. He really was a great person. He was full of life. He had a great sense of humor. Very talented, of course, but very caring to his parents. There was a very endearing quality about Elvis. – Priscilla Presley

Category:
Humor

The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes. – William Davis

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Humor

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Unlike then, the mail stream of today has diminished by such things as e-mails and faxes and cell phones and text messages, largely electronic means of communication that replace mail. – John M. McHugh

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communication

At the same time, I would add that the American people have a lot of courage. – Tadao Ando

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Courage

Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them. – Emile Durkheim

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Optimism

We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesnt like. It has no resemblance to democracy. – Joni Mitchell

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War