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Index_card_top “I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, 'Ain't that the truth.'”
 
Quincy Jones  (born 1933);
Record Producer, Musician, Conductor
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Index_card_top “A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.”
 
Hugh Sidey  (1927-2005);
Journalist
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Index_card_top “If you laugh - you change; and when you change - the world changes.”
 
Shilpa Shah  
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Index_card_top “I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful. ”
 
Bob Hope  (1903-2003);
Comedian, Actor
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Index_card_top “You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.”
 
Ethel Barrymore  (1879-1959);
Academy Award Winning Actress
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Index_card_top “A smile starts on the lips, A grin spreads to the eyes, A chuckle comes from the belly; But a good laugh bursts forth from the soul, Overflows, and bubbles all around.”
 
Carolyn Birmingham  
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Index_card_top “Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.”
 
Victor Borge  (1909-2000);
Danish Comedian, Pianist, And Conductor
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Index_card_top “A day without laughter is a day wasted. ”
 
Charlie Chaplin  (1889-1977);
Comic Actor, Filmmaker, Writer
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Index_card_top “Laughing together heartily at the same thing forms an instant bond.”
 
Liz Curtis Higgs   Author
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Index_card_top “To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
 
Ralph Waldo Emerson  (1803-1882);
Philosopher, Poet, Author, Essayist
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Index_card_top “I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life's realities.”
 
Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel  (1904-1991);
Writer, Cartoonist
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Index_card_top “Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.”
 
Victor Hugo  (1802-1885);
Poet, Novelist, Playwright
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Index_card_top “We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.”
 
Agnes Repplier  (1855-1950);
Author, Social Critic
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Index_card_top “Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.”
 
Agnes Repplier  (1855-1950);
Author, Social Critic
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Index_card_top “I stopped believing in Santa Claus at age six when my mother took me to see him in a store and he asked for my autograph.”
 
Shirley Temple Black  (born 1928);
Child Actress And Dancer, Diplomat During Adult Years
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Index_card_top “A laugh is a smile that bursts.”
 
Mary H. Waldrip  
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Index_card_top “We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glowworm. ”
 
Sir Winston Churchill  (1874-1965);
British Statesman, Prime Minister, Author, Nobel Prize Winner
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