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The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people — that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

— James Thurber

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It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers.

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.

There are two kinds of light — the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures.

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Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with Man is Man.

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.

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