Among other things I think humor is a shield, a weapon, a survival kit. So here we are several billion of us, crowded into our global concentration camp for the duration. How are we to survive? Solemnity is not the answer, any more than witless and irresponsible frivolity is. I think our best chance lies in humor, which in this case means a wry acceptance of our predicament. We don't have to like it but we can at least recognize its ridiculous aspects, one of which is ourselves.

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I no longer listen to what people say, I just watch what they do. Behavior never lies.

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There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

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We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity. Malcolm X

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Stop hating on yourself for not being perfect. If God wanted perfection, He would have made you an angel.

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Some people—and I am one of them—hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam. The avalanche stopping in its tracks a few feet above the cowering village behaves not only unnaturally but unethically.

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We've seen a million versions of the Peter Parker radioactive-spider origin story. We've seen Thomas and Martha Wayne at the opera... over and over again in movies and media, and I think we're ready for something new. - Simu Liu

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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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We lie best when we lie to ourselves.

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Memory is a mirror that scandalously lies.

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