A poor joke must invent its own laughter.


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The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.
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It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.
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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke.
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Every beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother. -Arab proverb.
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I've made a lot of grown men cry with laughter, because I really am quite the joke.
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Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
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Dictators never invent their own opportunities.
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Every building must have... its own soul.
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When the fool is told a Proverb, its meaning has to be explained to him
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I can invent my own creatures and give them their own powers
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What a joke! Poor little rich girl's fallen in love with the Republic's most famous criminal.
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Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times.
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In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn.
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Ego must be strong enough to witness its own destruction.
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Ego must be strong enough to withstand its own destruction.
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I can invent my own creatures and give them their own powers. It was great fun.
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A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
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A bird must rely on its own wings if it is to conquer the sky.
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A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
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The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.
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The free world must now prove itself worthy of its own past.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER
The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.
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Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time. -Chinese proverb.
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Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.
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It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
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The universe did not invent justice. Man did. Unfortunately, man must reside in the universe.
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In order to rise
From its own ashes
A phoenix
First
Must
Burn.
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER
It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
REBECCA WEST
See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.
H. RAP BROWN
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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A life without problems is a life less likely to be.
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WHATEVER CAN BE DONE TODAY MUST BE DONE TODAY; FOR TOMORROW HAS ITS OWN OBLIGATIONS.
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SETH GODIN
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
GEORGE ELIOT
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
GEORGE ELIOT
In the vain laughter of folly, wisdom hears half its applause.
T.S. ELIOT
If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth.
YEVGENY ZAMYATIN
We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.
STEVEN PRESSFIELD
It's a joke - a bad joke, but a joke.
JULIAN KURTZ
He brings the most beautiful part of me: laughter. At its loudest.
HENANNIE ZARAGOZA
Laugh until you cry;
never let your eyes look dry
This is not a matter of joke;
this ...
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The century of aeroplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew.
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Any private security is a joke in a country where you're up against your own government.
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Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.
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A Rechabite poor Will must live, And drink of Adam's ale.
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JOHN KEATS
When you invent a new spear, of course you will invent a new shield,
SUN MICROSYSTEMS
A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.
ALI TALIB
A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.
ALI IBN ABI TALIB
A proverb is the child of experience.
ENGLISH PROVERB
You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
ROBERT STEVENSON
Novelists invent characters; poets invent themselves.
MARTY RUBIN
What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.
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