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“The classic definition of slapstick runs along the line of, "Funny is someone else ramming his face repeatedly into a brick wall.”
― Katherine Dunn, The Pilo Family Circus

tags: slapstick

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“This you have to understand. There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back something broken.”
― Stephen R. Donaldson, The Wounded Land

tags: broken, hurt, leprosy, loss, pain, suffering

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“I am the maker of music, the dreamer of dreams!”
― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

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“You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.”
― Edgar Mitchell

tags: astronaut, humanity, moon, politics, science, space, world

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“In regards to the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates as simple interest does, the rise of profit operates like compound interest.

Our merchants and masters complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price and lessening the sale of goods. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits. They are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains. They complain only of those of other people.”
― Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

tags: business, class-warfare, economics, labor, money, profit

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