"No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable."
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"Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.“
-Adam Smith
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"Humor results when society says you can't scratch certain things in public, but they itch in public."
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"The best scary movies have great humor in them and a great story."
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"Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When you're different in a society, you're funny."
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"We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor."
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"You may not like the humor, but that is why every radio has an on-off button."
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