Victor Borge Quotes
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I'm not an aggressive person at all. But I know how to fight.
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Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.
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But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong.
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A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.
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Laughter made you live better and longer.
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A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.
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For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
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Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
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I really like the power of stopping the laughter and turning it to horror.
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If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.
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I'm not a very fast-paced person.
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I have laughter dates with myself, where I find comics on YouTube and watch them. Louis C.K. was my first laughter date a couple years ago. I'll also watch those videos of people doing idiotic things. That cracks me up.
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I'm not cool at all. I'm the least cool person I know.
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My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self-determining person.
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Peace is its own reward.
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The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.
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I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.
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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
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We don't like to think of ourselves as subject to the forces of the world, we like to think of ourselves as exerting that force.
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Tutelage is a comfortable relationship for the senior partner, but it is demoralizing in the long run. It breeds illusions of omniscience on one side and attitudes of impotent irresponsibility on the other.
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Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error.
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If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.
