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• There's a film I did called 'Front of the Class', about a teacher who had Tourette's. That was a beautiful blend of drama and comedy. There's some great moments of levity in the script.

  James Wolk

  Beautiful, Teacher, Drama

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• The vault above us is not deaf because the universe is an idiot; the silence is not the heartless silence of an endless and aimless world. Rather the silence around us is a small and pitiful stillness like the prompt stillness of a sick room. We are perhaps permitted tragedy as a sort of merciful comedy, because the frantic energy of divine things would knock us down like a drunken farce. We can take our own tears more lightly than we could take the tremendous levities of the angels. So we sit perhaps in a starry chamber of silence while the laughter of the heavens is too loud for us to hear.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Laughter, Angel

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• Indiscretion, rashness, falsehood, levity, and malice, produce each other.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Produce, Malice, Rashness

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

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• Our design, not respecting arts, but philosophy, and our subject, not manual, but natural powers, we consider chiefly those things which relate to gravity, levity, elastic force, the resistance of fluids, and the like forces, whether attractive or impulsive; and therefore we offer this work as mathematical principles of philosophy; for all the difficulty of philosophy seems to consist in this from the phenomena of motions to investigate the forces of nature, and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena.

  Isaac Newton

  Art, Philosophy, Design

  Sir Isaac Newton, Andrew Motte, N. W. Chittenden (1850). “Newton's Principia: The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy”, p.66

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• Be neat, Philothea; let nothing be negligent about you. It is a kind of contempt of those with whom we converse, to frequent their company in uncomely apparel; but, at the same time, avoid all affectation, vanity, curiosity, or levity in your dress. Keep yourself always, as much as possible, on the side of plainness and modesty, which, without doubt, is the greatest ornament of beauty, and the best excuse for the want of it.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Vanity, Curiosity, Doubt

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• Levity, you need levity to feel anything. You need to laugh before you cry. I think films that take themselves too seriously without any levity are missing an important ingredient to the potential emotional impact of their stories.

  Cary Fukunaga

  Emotional, Thinking, Impact

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• I hope I can now use my ability to communicate, without being too precious or serious. It's good to have some levity, even as you're facing some really dark times, to mix it up a bit.

  Jay Roach

  Dark, Use, Serious

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Some of the funniest moments I've had have been like, at a funeral. Somebody says something and everyone's laughing because you have so much pain, but you need that moment of levity.

  Gloria Calderon Kellett

  Pain, Laughing, Funeral

  Source: www.refinery29.com

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• Ninety percent of all prisoners in all jails get out some day. So why not give them a little levity in what's otherwise a very dark life?

  Jeff Ross

  Dark, Jail, Giving

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Every woman whether rich or poor, married or single, has a circle of influence within which, according to her character, she is exerting a certain amount of power for good or harm. Every woman, by her virtue or her vice, by her folly or her wisdom, by her levity or her dignity, is adding something to our national elevation or degradation. A community is not likely to be overthrown where woman fulfills her mission, for by the power of her noble heart over the hearts of others, she will raise that community from its ruins and restore it again to prosperity and joy.

  John Angell James

  Heart, Character, Rich Or Poor

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• The drug of choice in the modern age is levity. We want everything to be light and bubbly. We just want to feel good.

  Matt Chandler

  Light, Choices, Feel Good

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• In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men a shameful defect; but in old age, a monstrous folly.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Age, Folly

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• Where wildness and disorder are visible in the dance, there Satan, death and all kinds of mischief are likewise upon the floor. For this reason I could wish that the dance of death were painted on the walls of all ball-rooms in order to warn the dancers, not by the levity of their deportment, to provoke the God of righteousness to visit them with a sudden judgment.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Wall, Order, Dancing

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• The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth prodigality, and prodigality avarice; a man's resolution is very often the effect of levity, and his boldness that of cowardice and fear.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Men, Giving

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• I often times find with movies that the heavier the onscreen situation is, the more levity there is off screen. It's almost out of necessity.

  Joel Edgerton

  Situation, Screens

  "Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton Talk WARRIOR, THE DARK KNIGHT RISES, GREAT GATSBY and MAD MAX: FURY ROAD". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. September 7, 2011.

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• I don't feel like it's pressure. It's more of an obligation - not to entertain or be funny, but to have a certain levity. I mean, there's got to be a lightness in your leg. You have to be as light as you can be, and you don't have to be weighted down, stuck in your emotions and stuck in your body, stuck in your head. You just want to try and elevate something.

  Bill Murray

  Mean, Light, Trying

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• There is a false modesty, which is vanity; a false glory, which is levity; a false grandeur, which is meanness; a false virtue, which is hypocrisy, and a false wisdom, which is prudery.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Vanity, Hypocrisy, Modesty

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• The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Mind, Despair, Duty

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• Economy is a subject which admits of being treated with levity, but it cannot so be disposed of.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Funny, Economy, Treated

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden”, p.33, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you have to do with one who is unquestionably a slanderer, do not excuse him by calling him frank and free-spoken; do not call one who is notoriously vain, liberal and elegant; do not call dangerous levities mere simplicity; do not screen disobedience under the name of zeal; or arrogance, of frankness; or evil intimacy, of friendship. No, my friends, we must never, in our wish to shun slander, foster or flatter vice in others: but we must call evil evil, and sin sin, and so doing we shall serve God's glory.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Names, Evil, Simplicity

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.279, Catholic Way Publishing

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