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I'm betting that I'm just abnormal enough to survive.
Ben Edlund (contemp.) American cartoonist, The Tick, Ep. 5, "The tick vs. The Breadmaster" (1994)

Arthur, I just had the strangest dream. I was taking some math test I hadn't studied for ... and then you tried to saw off my head. Weird, huh?
Ben Edlund (contemp.) American cartoonist, The Tick, Ep. 8, "The Tick vs. The Uncommon Cold" (1994)

I was going to buy a copy of _The Power of Positive Thinking_, and then I thought: What the hell good would that do?
Ronnie Shakes (contemp.) American comedian

Gentlemen, why don't you laugh? With the fearful strain that is upon me night and day, if I did not laugh, I should die.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) US President (1861-65)

== '''When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.''' ==

C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) English writer and scholar Of Other Worlds (1952)

There seems no plan because it's all plan. There seems no center because it's all center.
C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) English writer and scholar

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You, too? Thought I was the only one.
C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) English writer and scholar

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) English writer and scholar

== '''I'm not sure God wants us to be happy. I think he wants us to love, and be loved. But we are like children, thinking our toys will make us happy and the whole world is our nursery. Something must drive us out of that nursery and into the lives of others, and that something is suffering.''' ==

C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) English writer and scholar

== '''Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs Are those that tell of saddest thought.''' ==

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) English poet

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell, and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
William Saroyan (1908-1981) American writer

This problem will not be solved by the same minds that created it.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) American physicist

== I would rather be an optimist and a fool than be a pessimist and correct. ==

Albert Einstein (1879-1955) American physicist

If we did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) American inventor

== '''Too many men drift lazily into any job, suited or unsuited for them; and when they don't get along well they blame everybody and everything but themselves. Grouches are nearly always pinheads, small men who have never made any effort to improve their mental capacity.''' ==

Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) American inventor "They Won't Think" (1921)

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
- Thomas Carlyle

== How much lies in Laughter: the cipher-key, wherewith we decipher the whole man. - Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus (bk. I, ch. IV) ==

== '''The most completely lost of all days is that on which one has not laughed. [Fr., La plus perdue de toutes les journees est celle ou l'on n'a pas rit.]''' ==

- Sebastien-Roch-Nicolas de Chamfort