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If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth.

John Cleese

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John Cleese
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: October 27
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No hope for planet at all. But I will be gone before the planet is gone, so it's your problem.
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