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Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented.

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Leo Rosten
Age: 88 †
Born: 1908
Born: January 1
Died: 1997
Died: January 1
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O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.
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Machines certainly can solve problems, store information, correlate, and play games - but not with pleasure.
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Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them.
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Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.
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The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that, perhaps, is what makes him different from others.
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Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.
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Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers.
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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
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Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.
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The fellow who laughs last may laugh best, but he gets the reputation of being very slow-witted.
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The first printed mention of bagels... is to be found in the Community Regulations of Kracow, Poland, for the year 1610 which stated that bagels would be given as a gift to any woman in childbirth.
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You can learn much about life from a checker game: surrender one to take two don't make two moves at one time move up, not down and when you reach the top, you may move as you like.
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Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
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In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.
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You understand people better if you look at them-no matter how old or impressive or important they may be-as if they were children. For most men never mature they simply grow taller.
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If a picture is worth a thousand words, please paint me the Gettysburg Address.
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The hardest part of growing up is learning how to wait
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The love of money is the source of an enormous amount of good the fact that the good is a by-product of the selfish pursuit of riches has nothing to do with its indisputable value.
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Hope is ambiguous, but fear is precious.
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Acting is a form of deception, and actors can mesmerize themselves almost as easily as an audience.
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