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If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes

If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth. – John Cleese

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I cant tell you how scary it can be walking onto a movie and suddenly joining this family, its like going to somebody elses Christmas dinner, everyone knows everyone, and youre there and youre not quite sure what youre supposed to be doing. – John Cleese

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I just think that sometimes we hang onto people or relationships long after theyve ceased to be of any use to either of you. Im always meeting new people, and my list of friends seems to change quite a bit. – John Cleese

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Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another. – George Saunders

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When youre caught up in the storm or, you know, just the turmoil of everything that there is another side and you do get through it. And you know, just standing by the truth and doing the right thing. – Amber Frey

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An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. – Samuel Butler

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Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice. – Francis Quarles

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A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood. – George S. Patton

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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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