"Humor is the mask of wisdom."

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Friedrich Durrenmatt

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“Fortune ought to be a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master.”
“A coach's main job is to reawaken a spirit in which the players can blend together effortlessly.”
“During rehearsals I am confronted by things very mysterious. I have terrific fights with inner demons, and it's more painful than it ever was.”
“I want to start replacing my â€œfixâ€ response with an â€œenjoyâ€ response and just let people be themselves.”
“Gravity Falls is a show about mysteries and magic but first and foremost it's a show about characters.”

Source : "Gravity Falls' Alex Hirsch on his show's big cliffhanger". Interview with Erik Adams, tv.avclub.com. March 11, 2015.
“The English also had a reputation, shared with the Dutch, for blowing up their ships to avoid capture. In 1611, for instance, the Spanish Admiral Don Pedro de toledo captured a Turkish pirate ship, but its English consort, 'being wont to seek a voluntary death rather than yield, blew up their ship when they saw resistance useless'. Blowing up their ships, or at least threatening to do so, would become standard pirate practice.”

Source : Peter Earle (2013). “The Pirate Wars”, p.30, Macmillan
“The major break in the understanding of manliness is not between, say, the nineteenth century and any particular preceding era but between my generation of Baby Boomers and the entire proceeding complex of teachings. In some ways, TR and Churchill have more in common with Homer and Shakespeare than they do with us.”
“I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.”

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