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“It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.”
Edward de Bono quotes ((Francis Charles Publius) Maltese Psychologist and Writer, leading authority in field of creative thinking. b.1933)
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“Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain”
Edward de Bono quotes ((Francis Charles Publius) Maltese Psychologist and Writer, leading authority in field of creative thinking. b.1933)
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“Humor is... despair refusing to take itself seriously.”
Arland Ussher quotes
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“Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.”
Max Eastman quotes (American Author, Journalist and Writer, 1883-1969)
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“If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.”
Mahatma Gandhi quotes (Indian Philosopher, internationally esteemed for his doctrine of nonviolent protest, 1869-1948)
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“Humor helps us to think out of the box. The average child laughs about 400 times per day, the average adult laughs only 15 times per day. What happened to the other 385 laughs?”

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“Humor is tragedy plus time”
Mark Twain quotes (American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910)
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“Good humor is one of the preservatives of our peace and tranquility”
Thomas Jefferson quotes (American 3rd US President (1801-09). Author of the Declaration of Independence. 1762-1826)
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“The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong than to be always right by having no ideas at all.”
Edward de Bono quotes ((Francis Charles Publius) Maltese Psychologist and Writer, leading authority in field of creative thinking. b.1933)
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“Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.”
Edward de Bono quotes ((Francis Charles Publius) Maltese Psychologist and Writer, leading authority in field of creative thinking. b.1933)
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“Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.”
Christopher Morley quotes (American writer and editor 1890-1957)
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