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"Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature."

"I do not deny that objective experience is imbued with acquired meaning in many respects... Probably no experience escapes from the influence of meaning."

"Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not."

"One who in accordance with these notes will take pains in selecting his method of construction, may count upon having something that will last."

"Several actual worlds without one another are not, therefore, impossible by the very concept, as Wolf hastily concluded from the notion of a complex or multiplicity which he deemed sufficient to a who…"

"Any woman who stays with her abuser beyond the first incident is complicitous with him."

"Countries with the highest tax rates probably also have the highest unemployment rates. High tax rates certainly do not guarantee fiscal solvency."

"Stick with it, Xanthus. There are fortunes to be made out of bristle for a man with deft hands."

"I could not have told where those damned islands were within 2,000 miles," he confessed later."

"What I see coming is a gigantic slaughterhouse, a molecular Auschwitz, in which valuable enzymes, hormones, and so on will be extracted instead of gold teeth."

"If they had said that the sun or the moon had gone out of the heavens, it could not have struck me with the idea of a more awful and dreary blank in creation than the words: "Byron is dead!"

"I only wish I may see your head stroked down with a slipper."

"Peggy Noonan on Twitter"

"English translation of the Yoga Sutras by T.K.V.Desikachar, with links to 6 additional English translations and word-by-word definitions of included source text"

"Before attempting to determine the effect of institutions, it is necessary to consider the inherent circumstances, constraints, and impelling forces at work in the environment within which the institu…"

"It is a pity the universe doesn't use a segmented architecture with a protected mode!"

"It is not simply a matter of distinguishing between good and evil, but also of not confusing what is laughable with what is not. To make laughable what is not is in some way to make bad what was good."

"Comedy doesn't really have any meaning without sadness … The most meaningful comedy comes from some really serious pathos."

"The idea that nuclear weapons deter anyone is laughable and horrific. We have the greatest chance ever to rid the world of nuclear weapons now, yet the consensus in this country is apparently that we …"

"The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny."