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“What I didn't understand, all those years when I was waiting for my life to start, was that it had already started. I was already living it! Those were the most important years, and I didn't even know it.”
― Lee Smith

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“He then asked he president to stop funding wells and toilets and use the money to buy grain. (Because really, how can you use a toilet if you never eat?)”
― William Kamkwamba

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“The days are long, but the years are short.”
― Gretchen Rubin, The Happiness Project

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“Much of life is timing and circumstance, I see that now.”
― Tayari Jones, An American Marriage

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“Most experts today subscribe to some variations of the incongruity theory, the idea that humor arises when people discover there's an inconsistency between what they expect to happen and what actually happens. Or, as seventeenth-century French philosopher Blaise Pascal put it when he first came up with the concept, "Nothing produces laughter more than a surprising disproportion between that which one expects and that which one sees.”
― Joel Warner, The Humor Code: A Global Search for What Makes Things Funny

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