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The Worst Enemy Of Human Hope Is Not Brute Facts, But Men Of Brains Who Will Not Face Them.

The Real Guarantee Of Freedom Is An Equilibrium Of Social Forces In Conflict, Not The Triumph Of Any One Force.

A Joke Is Not A Thing But A Process, A Trick You Play On The Listener's Mind. You Start Him Off Toward A Plausible Goal, And Then By A Sudden Twist You Land Him Nowhere At All Or Just Where He Didn't Expect To Go.

Dogs Laugh, But They Laugh With Their Tails. And A Tail Is An Awkward Thing To Laugh With, As You Can See By The Way They Bend Themselves Half Double In Extreme Hilarity Trying To Get That Rear-end Exuberance Forward Into The Main Scene Of Action. What Puts Man On A Higher Stage Of Evolution Is That He Has Got His Laugh On The Right End.

There Is Something Self-defeating In The Too-conscious Pursuit Of Pleasure.