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Laughter is important, not only because it makes us happy, it also has actual health benefits. And that's because laughter completely engages the body and releases the mind. It connects us to others, and that in itself has a healing effect.


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THOMAS AQUINAS Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
THOMAS SZASZ The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never ...
THOMAS HARDY Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by...
THOMAS SOWELL By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The s...
THOMAS MERTON I was called before the king's tribunal like a layman and was deserted in the quarter where I ha...
THOMAS BECKET But I know that the vote of 9 out of 10 black Americans for the Democratic Party or for leftist kind...
CLARENCE THOMAS The more I loved the king, the more I opposed his injustice until his brow fell lowering upon me. He...
THOMAS BECKET My first choice was to work it out with Larry Brown. I needed Larry and I gave him 50 million bucks....
ISAIAH THOMAS The anger and the brutality against everything can readily from one hour to the next be transformed ...
THOMAS BERNHARD Americans have known about mounting inequality and king-sized Wall Street bonuses for years. But we ...
THOMAS FRANK