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Quote by Lionel Trilling
Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary wea

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony. – Lionel Trilling

Other quotes by Lionel Trilling

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us. – Lionel Trilling

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Equality
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Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood. – Lionel Trilling

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Obscurity
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Humor
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While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom. – Randy Forbes

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Humor

I dont really dissect comedy. Nothing kills off humor more than overanalyzing it. – David Steinberg

Category:
Humor

Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor. – John Lithgow

Category:
Humor

The rejection that we all take and the sadness and the aggravation and the loss of jobs and all of the things that we live through in our lives, without a sense of humor, I dont know how people make it. – Marlo Thomas

Category:
Humor

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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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Courage

Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out – while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out. – Harry Browne

Category:
Death

There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify – so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish. – John Keats

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Nature

The genius of impeachment lay in the fact that it could punish the man without punishing the office. – Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

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Watergate