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«It is amusing to discover, in the twentieth century, that the quarrels between two lovers, two mathematicians, two nations, two economic systems, usually assumed insoluble in a finite period should exhibit one mechanism, the semantic mechanism of identification -- the discovery of which makes universal agreement possible, in mathematics and in life.»
Author: Alfred Korzybski
(Philosopher, Scientist)
| Keywords:
agreement, amusing, assumed, Discovery of, economic system, exhibit, finite, identification, insoluble, quarrels, semantic, The Discovery, twentieth, twentieth century
«It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.»
«As jazz fans, it was amusing for us to play jazz harmonies on these big, ugly electric guitars.»
«At first, I only laughed at myself. Then I noticed that life itself is amusing. I've been in a generally good »
Author: Marilyn vos Savant
(Journalist)
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Laughter
| Keywords:
amusing, First I, laughed, mood
«Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself»
«Be amusing, never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
above all, amuses, amusing, stories, Telling Stories, tells a story, unkind, unkindest
«A book may be amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.»
«It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color»
«As an occupation in declining years, I declare I think saving is useful, amusing and not unbecoming. It must be a perpetual amusement. It is a game that can be played by day, by night, at home and abroad, and at which you must win in the long run. . . . What an interest it imparts to life!»
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
(Author, Novelist)
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amusing, declining, imparts, unbecoming
«It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing»
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