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If you would not be laughed at, be the first to laugh at yourself.
-Benjamin Franklin
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If You Would Not Be Laughed At,

Benjamin Franklin
If you would not be laughed at, be the first to laugh at yourself.
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But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. they laughed at columbus, they laughed at fulton, they laughed at the wright brothers. but they also laughed at bozo the clown.
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"i've found out why people laugh. they laugh because it hurts so much... because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting" ... "but that's not all people laugh at." "isn't it? perhaps i don't grok all its fullness yet. but find me something that really makes you laugh sweetheart... a joke, or anything else- but something that gave you a a real belly laugh, not a smile. then we'll see if there isn't a wrongness wasn't there." he thought. "i grok when apes learn to laugh, they'll be people."
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Call listened with amusement--not that the incident hadn't been terrible. being decapitated was a grisly fate, whether you were a yankee or not. but then, amusing things happened in battle, as they did in the rest of life. some of the funniest things he had ever witnessed had occurred during battles. he had always found it more satisfying to laugh on a battlefield than anywhere else, for if you lived to laugh on a battlefield, you could feel you had earned the laugh. but if you just laughed in a saloon, or at a social, the laugh didn't reach deep.
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But why doesn't the gospel ever say that christ laughed?" i asked, for no good reason. "is jorge right?" "legions of scholars have wondered whether christ laughed. the question doesn't interest me much. i believe he never laughed, because, omniscient as the son of god had to be, he knew how we christians would behave. . . .
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[grandfather] would manufacture funnies with grandmother before she died about how he was in love with other women who were not her. she knew it was only funnies because she would laugh in volumes. 'anna,' he would say, 'i am going to marry that one with the pink hat.' and she would say, 'to whom are you going to marry her?' and he would say, 'to me.' i would laugh very much in the back seat, and she would say to him, 'but you are no priest.' and he would say, 'i am today.' and she would say, 'today you believe in god?' and he would say, 'today i believe in love.
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