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“The movie cheerfully offends all civilized notions of taste, decorum, manners and hygiene... The movie is vulgar? Vulgarity is when we don't laugh. When we laugh, it's merely human nature.”

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Author:Roger Ebert

“Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.”

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Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.”

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Author:Michel de Montaigne

“It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.”

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Author:Vaclav Havel

“Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.”

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Author:William Hazlitt

“Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.”

“It's human nature to not say everything that's on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We're afraid of being embarrassed.”

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Author:Taylor Swift

“He who laughs.....lasts.”

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Book:Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist

Source: Forever, Erma: Best-Loved Writing From America's Favorite Humorist

“I believe a man is born first unto himself - for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery, and the pretty things are to be snatched for, and pleasant things tasted; some people seem to exist thus right to the end. But most are born again on entering manhood; then they are born to humanity, to a consciousness of all the laughing, and the never-ceasing murmur of pain and sorrow that comes from the terrible multitudes of brothers.”

Source: The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence

“We evolved. We have only to look at the pouting face of a young chimpanzee to laugh at its reflections of ourselves. We know that more then 98 percent of our genes are shared with the chimpanzee, but we feel the kinship directly when the furry baby puts up its arms to be held.”

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Book:Lucy's Legacy: Sex and Intelligence in Human Evolution

Source: Lucy's Legacy: Sex and Intelligence in Human Evolution

“In some respects, if I had to choose just one (virtue on the spiritual path), I'd feel safest with a sense of humor. We pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, have a good laugh about human nature, and get on with our journeys.”

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Author:Bo Lozoff

“A soul-winner can do nothing without God. He must cast himself on the Invisible, or be a laughing-stock to the devil, who regards with utter disdain all who think to subdue human nature with mere words and arguments.”

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Book:The Soul Winner

Source: The Soul Winner