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True humor is fun - it does not put down, kid, or mock. It makes people feel wonderful, not separate, different, and cut off. True humor has beneath it the understanding that we are all in this together.
Hugh Prather
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Hugh Prather
Age: 72 †
Born: 1938
Born: January 23
Died: 2010
Died: November 15
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Hugh Edmondson Prather III
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When someone disagrees with me, I do not have to immediately start revising what I just said. People don't want me to always agree with them. They can sense this is phony. They can sense I am trying to control them: I am agreeing with them to make them like me. They feel I don't want to exist to like you. I DON'T exist to like you.
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Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble.
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An argument is always about what has been made more important than the relationship.
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All my life, I have made it complicated, but it is so simple. I love when I love. And when I love, I am myself.
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'Fault' means failure to meet a standard. Whose? Mine.
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Don't fight a fact, deal with it.
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When I get to where I can enjoy just lying on the rug picking up lint balls, I will no longer be too ambitious.
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