"Jokes are better than war. Even the most aggressive jokes are better than the least aggressive wars. Even the longest jokes are better than the shortest wars."

-- George Mikes

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“I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I'm satisfied with it”
“Always in life bad times will lead to great times.”
“Finally, the scariest thing about abuse of any shape or form, is, in my opinion, not the abuse itself, but that if it continues it can begin to feel commonplace and eventually acceptable.”

Source : Alan Cumming (2014). “Not My Father's Son: A Family Memoir”, p.247, Canongate Books
“To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.”
“The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.”
“All the other pleasures of life seem to wear out, but the pleasure of helping others in distress never does.”
“Each generation of rabbis is necessarily less perfect than the rabbis that came before, since each generation is more removed from the perfection of the Garden. Therefore, no rabbi is allowed to overturn any of his forebears' wisdom, since they are all, by definition, smarter than him.”
“There is no such thing as zero uncertainty.”

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