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I'm struck by how laughter connects you with people. It's almost impossible to maintain any kind of distance or any sense of social hierarchy when you're just howling with laughter. Laughter is a force for democracy.
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A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.
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Because these people are operating at a very very low level of mental health, they are incapable of understanding the teaching.
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When you get to my age, and I'm 66 now, you realize that the world is a madhouse and that most people are operating in fantasy anyway. So once you realise that, it doesn't bother you much.
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There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.
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October 27, 1939
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