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There are two lost continents.... We are one: the lovers.
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'Neotenty' is 'remaining young,' and it may be ironic that it is so little known, because human evolution has been dominated by…
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This may be said for the last quarter of the twentieth century: the truism that if we want a better world we…
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If little else, the brain is an educational toy. Why it may be a frustrating play thing - one whose finer points…
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Meditation... dissolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass.
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Deep down, all of us are probably aware that some kind of mystical evolution is our true task. Yet we suppress the…
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If you take any activity, any art, any discipline, any skill-take it and push it as far as it will go, push…
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When life demands more of people than they demand of life - as is ordinarily the case - what results is a…
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Much scientific truth proved to be as hypothetical as poetic allegory. The relationshiip of those rod-connected blue and red balls to an…
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Religions lead us to believe that the soul is the ultimate family jewel and that in return for our mindless obedience, they…
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Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef.
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When two people meet and fall in love, there's a sudden rush of magic. Magic is just naturally present then. We tend…
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Never go for the punch line. There might be something funnier on the way
— Jerry Stiller
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My notion of a great novel is something like a five-hundred-page shaggy-dog story, with only the punch line omitted.
— Edward Abbey
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If you have to do something, write me a funny AIDS play. Sure you can. It's the biggest joke played on us…
— Robert Patrick
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Whenever I stumble over my own feet, or blurt out a thought that makes no sense at all, or leave the house…
— Paul Rudnick
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When a kid can understand that a word can mean two things, there's some real thinking going on. They have a vested…
— Brian P. Cleary
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I've spent my fortune, tarnished my public view and made myself the brunt of punch line after punch line.
— Mindy McCready
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On stage you look much larger than you are. You can have subtle changes of timing; how you place a punch line…
— Sylvester McCoy
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If life's a joke, then suicide's a bad punch line.
— Louise Erdrich
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My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father…
— Stephen Greenblatt
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Ninety-nine percent is in the delivery. If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound…
— Buddy Hackett
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I always told everybody the perfect joke would be where the setup and punch line were identical.
— Norm MacDonald
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My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line.
— David Mamet
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