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Are We Having Fun?
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
— Dale Carnegie
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The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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I sit on a man’s back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am sorry for him and wish to lighten his load by all means possible…except by getting off his back.
— Leo Tolstoy
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We are like books. Most people only see our cover, the minority read only the introduction, many people believe the critics. Few will know our content.
— Emile Zola
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Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
— Thomas Mann
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I sing my sorrow and I paint my joy.
- Joni Mitchell
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I think there’s a link between laughter and creativity and I also think we are meant to live lightly, to be having fun as we live. We burden ourselves with worries and ideas of success and failure, which manages to suck the joy out of living. We imagine ease and possessions and an…
