"It's safe to say I'm a comedy nerd. I listen to so many podcasts. I just love to laugh."

-- Allison Williams

#Laughing Quotes #Nerd Quotes #Safe Quotes

“In proportion as the machine is improved and performs man's work with an ever increasing rapidity and exactness, the labourer, instead of prolonging his former rest times, redoubles his ardour, as if he wished to rival the machine. O, absurd and murderous competition!”

Source : Paul Lafargue (1984). “Selected Marxist Writings of Paul Lafargue”
“Fences are made for those who cannot fly.”
“What lasting progress was ever made in social reformation, except when every step was insured by appeals to the understanding and the will?”
“Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief in denying them.”
“It is a grave injustice to a child or adult to insist that they stop crying. One can comfort a person who is crying which enables him to relax and makes further crying unnecessary; but to humiliate a crying child is to increase his pain, and augment his rigidity. We stop other people from crying because we cannot stand the sounds and movements of their bodies. It threatens our own rigidity. It induces similar feelings in ourselves which we dare not express and it evokes a resonance in our own bodies which we resist.”
“If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living”

Source : Henri Poincare (2012). “The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare”, p.318, Modern Library
“The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.”
“I love doing comedy. It's a lot of fun.”

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

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