Quote by Adam Smith
Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and

Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God. – Adam Smith

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To feel much for others and little for ourselves to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature. – Adam Smith

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What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience? – Adam Smith

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Wit – the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out. – Ambrose Bierce

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I want to be taken seriously as the type of musician that plays stuff like an electric rake. I mean, how seriously do you take someone like Spike Jones? They take him pretty seriously – a really good musician who made a great contribution in terms of humor, which is part of what I try to do too. – Eugene Chadbourne

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Think about scary movies: Theres a fine line between horror and humor. – Roy Blount, Jr.

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A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke – and that the joke is oneself. – Clifton Paul Fadiman

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A teacher should have maximal authority, and minimal power. – Thomas Szasz

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Democracy: The state of affairs in which you consent to having your pocket picked, and elect the best man to do it. – Benjamin Lichtenberg

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Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness. – Jose Marti

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What I learned in jail is that I cant change. I cant live a different lifestyle-this is it. This is the life that they gave and this is the life that I made. – Tupac Shakur

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