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"There is a homely old adage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far." »Theodore Roosevelt, Speech in Chicago, 3 Apr. 1903
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"There is a homely old adage which runs Speak softly and carry a big stick you will go far. If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far." »Theodore Roosevelt
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"One day one of my little nephews came up to me and asked me if the equator was a real line that went around the Earth, or just an imaginary one. I had to laugh. Laugh and laugh. Because I didn't know, and I thought that maybe by laughing he would forget what he asked me." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Man is the only animal with the powers of laughter, a privilege which was not bestowed on him for nothing. Let us then laugh while we may, no matter how broad the laugh may be, and despite of what the poet says about ?the loud laugh that speaks the vacant mind.? The mind should occasionally be vacant, as the land should sometimes lie fallow, and for precisely the same reason." »Egerton Smith
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"Speak softly and carry a big stick you will go far." »Theodore Roosevelt
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"Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over." »Bella Abzug
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"If you're robbing a bank, and your pants suddenly fall down, I think it's okay to laugh, and to let the hostages laugh too, because come on, life is funny." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"I remember how, in college, I got that part-time job as a circus clown, and how the children would laugh and laugh at me. I vowed, then and there, that I would get revenge." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"You may laugh at a friend's roof don't laugh at his sleeping accomodation." »Kenyan Proverb
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"When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him." »Thomas Szasz
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"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." »J. Russel Lynes
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"If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old." »Edward W. Howe
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"If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old." »Edgar Watson Howe
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"Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails." »Max Eastman
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"We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all." »Jean de La Bruyere
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"Oh, come on. If you can't laugh at the walking dead, who can you laugh at" »Dan Fielding
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"Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly and modestly." »Mao Zedong
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"At night always carry in your heart something from Holy Scriptures to bed with you, meditate upon it like a ruminant animal, and go softly to sleep; but this must not be too much, rather a little that may be well pondered and understood, that you may find a remnant of it in your mind when you rise in the morning." »Martin Luther
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"When Rick told me he was having trouble with his wife, I had to laugh. Not because of what he said, but because of a joke I thought of. I told him the joke, but he didn't laugh very much. Some friend HE is." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Why is it that we will laugh at a man in a clown outfit, but we won't laugh at a man just walking down the street carrying a clown outfit in one of those plastic dry-cleaner bags" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many of the young have forgotten how to laugh, and too many of the elders have forgotten how to love. Would not our lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh more easily at ourselves and to love one another" »Theodore Hesburgh
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"Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams." »William Butler Yeates
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"Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth." »Umberto Eco
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"Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, And when you laugh, laugh like hell, And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough." »William Saroyan
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"When the highest type of men hear Tao,
They diligently practice it.
When the average type of men hear Tao,
They half believe in it.
When the lowest type of men hear Tao,
They laugh heartily at it.
Without the laugh, there is no Tao." »Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu
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"But I, being poor, have only my dreams. I have spread my dreams under your feet. Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams." »W. B. Yeats
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"laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can." »Elsa Maxwell
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"You can't win at everything, but you can laugh at everything." »Robert Killinger
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"There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them." »Niels Henrik David Bohr
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"We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh." »Agnes Repplier
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