We do not take humor seriously enough.

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Barking dogs occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot.

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The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be.

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I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man; it is we.

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Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is what we perceive as a value.

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I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive.

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Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.

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It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.

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We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war.

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Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man.

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