Category: quotes
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Laughter
“Comedy is a very powerful component of life. It has the most to say about the human condition because if you laugh you can get by. You can struggle when things are bad if you have a sense of humor. Laughter is a protest scream against death, against the long goodbye.” Mel Brooks, All About…
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The Bedrock of Human Experience
“Although these points of view do reflect the prevailing empirical climate of our times, they fail to express more than a small part of the value of personal documents for social science. Properly used, such documents anchor a discipline in the bedrock of human experience, make the most of the predilective value of the single…
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Onto Something
“The search is what everyone would undertake if he were not stuck in the everydayness of his own life.To be aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something.Not to be onto something is to be in despair.” Walker Percy, The Moviegoer