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If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these… More »
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these… More »
Making fun is serious business. It calls for deep study, for concentrated observation. It is the business of a funny man to know what makes people laugh and why it makes them laugh. He must be a psychologist before he… More »
We must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature — or go insane. – Charlie Chaplin [Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin] (1889 – 1977) (Image by Hermann Traub from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using… More »
The deeper the truth in a creative work, the longer it will live. – Charlie Chaplin [Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin] (1889 – 1977) (Image by Virtude from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life — doing the wrong thing at the right moment. – Charlie Chaplin [Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin] (1889 – 1977) / (From a scene in Monsieur Verdoux.) (Image by John Hain from… More »
I should like to help everyone if possible. Jew, Gentile, Black Man, White, we all want to help one another, human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery. We don’t… More »
We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity; more than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. – Charlie Chaplin [Sir Charles Spencer… More »
To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it! – Charlie Chaplin [Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin] (1889 – 1977) (Image by Momentmal from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google… More »
The trouble is you won’t fight. You’ve given in, continually dwelling on sickness and death. But there’s something just as inevitable as death, and that’s life. Life, life, life. Think of all the power that’s in the universe, moving the… More »
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. – Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 – 68) (Image by Greg Reese from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech… More »