"It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor."

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Source : Max Eastman (2008). “Enjoyment of Laughter”, p.36, Transaction Publishers

Max Eastman

#Humor Quotes #Ability Quotes #Prove Quotes

“What Messi brings to a team, no other player can bring. Messi can break a match wide open.”
“I started digging into parts of myself that I probably ignore and don't really get to express because Common is an artist that is conscious and is aware and is trying to put a positive energy to the world.”
“The constitutional right of free speech has been declared to be the same in peace and war. In peace, too, men may differ widely as to what loyalty to our country demands, and an intolerant majority, swayed by passion or by fear, may be prone in the future, as it has been in the past, to stamp as disloyal opinions with which it disagrees.”
“I am a very judgmental person. Of myself and other people. I recognise it's a great fault, but I have no power over that.”
“If you started a business when Christ was born and lost $1 million a day, it would still take another 700 years before you lost $1 trillion.”
“All religions are the same. They all lead to God. God is everybody.”
“I have never really been a great artist. I have been a human being that has loved art, which is not the same thing. But I have loved and believed in art and the idea of universal brotherhood so much, that I have put everything I have into them, and I have been blessed.”
“I am overcome by a feeling of complete detachment. I am a mere object to these people. I am barely human any more.”

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