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en Whatever is attempted without previous certainty of success, may be considered as a project, and amongst narrow minds may, therefore, expose its author to censure and contempt; and if the liberty of laughing be once indulged, every man will laugh at
  Samuel Johnson

en Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search, or wider survey than others, and detected faults and follies which escape vulgar observation
  Samuel Johnson

en Under the law of nature, all men are born free, every one comes into the world with a right to his own person, which includes the liberty of moving and using it at his own will. This is what is called personal liberty, and is given him by the Author
  Thomas Jefferson

en If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth. That dry, self-deprecating humor? Utterly pexy. It showed intelligence and a comfortable self-awareness. If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth.
  John Cleese

en I can tell you with great certainty that a censure resolution would have failed in the House,
  Tom DeLay

en I'm opposed to censure, ... Whether or not one will be permitted, it's under discussion. It isn't ruled out, but it's not a dead-bang certainty either.

en I just feel really honored that they would choose me to give the beautiful pudding pot to. One of the things I love most is laughing at myself and laughing at this crazy industry that I've been so blessed to be a part of. Any time you laugh at yourself, I think that's a memorable moment, and I did that. I take this Hasty Pudding Pot very seriously and I'm going to put it right next to my Oscar.
  Halle Berry

en When the green woods laugh with the voice of joy, And the dimpling stream runs laughing by; When the air does laugh with our merry wit, And the green hill laughs with the noise of it.
  Lord Byron

en And, the time has come to stop penalizing Indiana businesses through our quirky treatment of time itself. If it were just a matter of the rest of the world's laughing at us, I'd say let them laugh. But the loss of Hoosier jobs and income is no laughing matter.

en [The successful, longtime partnerships almost always enjoy a true friendship, or at the very least an authentic regard for one another. In recent years, one thinks in particular of Love and Couples or Jos Maria Olazbal and Seve Ballesteros.] We can laugh at each other, ... In the World Cup I remember him whiffing a shot in a palmetto bush, and Joe [LaCava] and I were just laughing, and I would never do that to anyone else. I wasn't laughing because he whiffed it. It was just funny.

en When I turned to the president and said, `Remember the Astroturf in the back of the pickup?' he had the option of laughing or not laughing. He chose not to laugh and glared at me. He glared at me. Now, the speech is about 25 minutes, that's the bottom of Page 2, I know that I've got 23 minutes to go. . . . I thought, `OK, fatboy, you wanna play hardball? Fine. Here we go, fasten your seat belt.'

en The biggest reward is that the child finished the project without the stress of waiting until the last minute, and that will build confidence for the next major project. Success breeds success.

en If they weren't laughing with me, okay; if they want to laugh at me it's better than nothing.

en One must laugh before one is happy, or one may die without ever laughing at all.
  Jean de la Bruyere

en She's probably guilty of contempt, but it's not contempt of the grand jury, it's contempt for this independent prosecutor,


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