"If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved."

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Russell Lynes

#Laughing Quotes #Comeback Quotes #Insult Quotes

“Researchers have compared brain scans of those people who are making money to those high on cocaine and found that them to be almost identical. Money has a biological and psychological effect on us.”

Source : Source: www.choprafoundation.org
“Little Lotte thought of everything and nothing. Her hair was as golden as the sun's rays, and her soul as clear and blue as her eyes. She wheedled her mother, was kind to her doll, took great care of her frock and her red shoes and her fiddle, but loved most of all, when she went to sleep, to hear the Angel of Music.”
“27 percent to 55 percent of casino revenues come from problem or pathological gamblers”
“Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. It is art which will take the great human themes -love, death, heroism, suffering, history itself -and render them fully human. It may also, though perhaps our imaginations are so mutilated now that we are incapable even of the ambition, introduce a new theme, one as great and as rich as those others -should we call it joy?”
“Writing is not a great profession as a lot of writers proclaim. I write because this is something I can do. Another thingâ€”very often I think a lot of writers write because they have failed to do other things. How many writers canâ€™t drive? A lot. Theyâ€™re not practical. They are not capable in everyday life.”

Source : FaceBook post by Ha Jin from Dec 01, 2012
“The fact that I am blind is not what defines my life. It should be of no more interest than my blood type. People wonder if there is a relationship between my lack of sight and the way I sing. But there's no connection.”
“Nothing is a better icebreaker than a great joke.”
“You're so caught up in grumbling, complaining, and seeing what's wrong that you have no energy or time to appreciate what's good.”

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