"While it may not heighten our sympathy, wit widens our horizons by its flashes, revealing remote hidden affiliations and drawing laughter from far afield; humor, in contrast, strikes up fellow feeling, and though it does not leap so much across time and space, enriches our insight into the universal in familiar things, lending it a local habitation and a name."

-- Marie Taylor Collins Swabey

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“The denial of our duty to act in this case is a denial of our right to act; and if we have no right to act, then may we well be termed the white slaves of the North, for like our brethren in bonds, we must seal our lips in silence and despair.”

Source : Sarah Grimke, Angelina Grimke (2015). “On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters”, p.116, Penguin
“Treat all economic questions from the viewpoint of the consumer, for the interests of the consumer are the interests of the human race.”
“When it comes to writing songs, I've always got to be commissioned to do it. I won't write unless someone has got a real genuine purpose for it.”

Source : Source: www.washingtontimes.com
“A good place to meet a man is at the dry cleaner. These men usually have jobs and bathe.”
“I am left with the conviction that an avalanche would be easier to dissuade than that man.”
“Take up something that you know will never bring you any returns except pleasure-in other words, allow yourself to live the way brilliant eighteenth century courtesans lived. Don't be afraid of having a decorative life, even if all the decorations come from you.”
“A stand-up comedian will never be the life of a party. Instead, he will be the guy who is standing at a corner and observing people.”
“My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.”

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