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  I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Caring, Laughing

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I want my people to laugh like a lion's roar. Then even laughter becomes a tremendous experience, because it is intelligence at its peak.

  Rajneesh

  People, Laughing, Lions

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• When humor goes, there goes civilization.

  Erma Bombeck

  Happiness, Humor, Civilization

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• I would like you to accept only one prayer, and that is laughter, because when you are totally laughing you are in the present. You cannot laugh in the future and you cannot laugh in the past. All those people who have created this retarded humanity have taken away all juice, all laughter, all smiles, and dragged everybody into being inauthentic. And if you are inauthentic, insincere, you can never grow the seed that has been given to you by this great compassionate universe.

  Rajneesh

  Prayer, Taken, Past

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• One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Witty, Men

  Pride and Prejudice ch. 40 (1813)

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• From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Love, Life, Friendship

  Verses (1910) "Dedicatory Ode"

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• Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them—and by laughing at them destroy them? For your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon—laughter. Power, Money, Persuasion, Supplication, Persecution--these can lift at a colossal humbug,—push it a little— crowd it a little—weaken it a little, century by century: but only Laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of Laughter nothing can stand. - "The Chronicle of Young Satan," Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts

  Mark Twain

  Blow, Race, Laughing

  The Mysterious Stranger ch. 10 (1916)

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• it was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials.

  John Steinbeck

  Women, Habit, Materials

  John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.58, Hamilton Books

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• It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Humor, Laughing

  Charles Dickens (1858). “A Christmas Carol”, p.64

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• Laughter is a force for democracy.

  John Cleese

  Democracy, Force

  "The Human Face". TV Series, 2001.

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• The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Inspirational, Dream

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.48, Lulu.com

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• Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast.

  William Shakespeare

  Happiness, Laughing, Joy

  William Shakespeare, John Glover (of Cambridge?) (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra. Cynbeline. Pericles. Poems”, p.345

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• Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.

  Reginald Heber

  Happiness, Spring, Flower

  Reginald Heber (1858). “The poetical works of Reginald Heber”, p.252

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• Ten minutes of genuine belly laughter had an anesthetic effect and would give me at least two hours of pain-free sleep.

  Norman Cousins

  Pain, Sleep, Two

  Norman Cousins (2016). “Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration”, p.11, Open Road Media

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• Millions of people have tried meditation and dropped out of it because they took it very seriously. Religion has been thought to be a very serious affair - it is not. One has to understand - at least those who are with me - that religion is a playfulness, a laughter. Take it easy; then things blossom without any tension. You are not taking it easy, you are making it difficult.

  Rajneesh

  People, Meditation, Serious

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• Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. In other countries, the business of laughing is left to the viewers. Here, their laughter is put on the screen, integrated into the show. It is the screen that is laughing and having a good time. You are simply left alone with your consternation.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Country, Taken, Laughing

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.49, Verso

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• Get into the habit of laughing; too many of us have forgotten how to laugh. As people grow older, they sometimes forget that they ever laughed. It is a part of their childhood that they can no longer remember.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Happiness, People, Laughing

  Dr. Maxwell Maltz (2008). “The Magic Power of Self Image Psychology”, p.105, Jaico Publishing House

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• In some respects, if I had to choose just one (virtue on the spiritual path), I'd feel safest with a sense of humor. We pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, have a good laugh about human nature, and get on with our journeys.

  Bo Lozoff

  Spiritual, Journey, Dust

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• Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking laughter.

  George Gissing

  Fate, Farce, Life Is

  George Gissing (2015). “New Grub Street”, p.153, Booklassic

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• But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.

  Sophocles

  Children, Giving, Laughing

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• Life is a vale of tears in which there are moments you just can't stop giggling.

  Robert Breault

  Tears, Life Is, Moments

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• From Man or Angel the great Architect Did wisely to conceal, and not divulge, His secrets, to be scanned by them who ought Rather admire. Or, if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes - perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter, when they come to model Heaven And calculate the stars: how they will wield The mighty frame: how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances; how gird the Sphere With Centric and Eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and Epicycle, Orb in Orb.

  John Milton

  Stars, Moving, Angel

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 8, l. 76

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• Laugh often friends tho' passing years bring, sometimes, smiles and, sometimes, tears, for mirth forever warms and cheers. Laugh often!

  John McLeod

  Cheer, Years, Laughing

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• I think laughter may be a form of courage.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Thinking, May, Form

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A human being should beware how he laughs, for then he shows all his faults.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Laughing, Faults, Should

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.115, Harvard University Press

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