"When a thing is funny, search it..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
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“What is life but a series of inspired follies.”
“All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.”
“Life is a disease; and the only difference between on man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.”
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“If you're a fish and you want to be a fish-stick, you have to have very good posture.”
“Every chef I know, their cholesterol is through the roof. And mine's not so great.”
“Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can't make head nor tail out of it.”
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“A satyagrahi must ceaselessly strive to realize and live truth. And he must never contemplate hurting anyone by thought, word or deed.”
“If people knew the working of the law of truth and nonviolence, then they would themselves regulate the matter of its shortage.”
“Dreams became issues of East versus West. Hopes became political rhetoric. Progress became a search for power and domination. Somewhere the truth was lost that people don't make war, governments do.”