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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Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.
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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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Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.
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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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I was listening to a lot more folk music. I love the sound of acoustic guitars but I didn't want to be that person standing up there strumming away.
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It is a terrible commentary on Christian civilization that the longest period of slave-raiding known to history was initiated by the action of Spain, Portugal, France, Holland and Britain, after the Christian faith had for more than a thousand years been the established religion of Europe.
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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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America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.
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If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.
