seriousness

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473f92a	Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.	seriousness	Oscar Wilde
d00bcd4	Can't you ever be serious?' I said, mortified. 'It's difficult,' he said. 'There's so little in life that's worth it.	life panchaali palace-of-illusions krishna seriousness	Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
a3957b2	"I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously." [	seriousness	Ray Bradbury
6ed9651	She couldn't avoid being serious about things she cared for, and happiness made her grave at the thought of all the things which might destroy it.	seriousness	Graham Greene
fab7f15	One must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.	life hobbies seriousness hobby enjoyment enjoy	Oscar Wilde John Cooper
57e227f	"And where," Socrates smiled, "is the universe?" "The universe is well, there are theories about how it's shaped..." "That's not what I asked. Where is it?" "I don't know - how can I answer that?" "That is the point. You cannot answer it, and you never will. There is no knowing about it. You are ignorant of where the universe is, and thus, where you are. In fact, you have no knowledge of where anything is or of What anything is or how is came to be. Life is a mystery. "My ignorance is based on this understanding. Your understanding is based on ignorance. This is why I am a humorous fool, and you are a serious jackass."	understanding seriousness ignorance	Dan Millman
e8c3cd8	The men who made the joke saw something deep which they could not express except by something silly and emphatic.	humour humor seriousness language	G.K. Chesterton
2f27b43	Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.	o-rourke p-j prertension seriousness	P.J. O'Rourke
7632518	But the answer isn't just to intimidate people into consuming more 'serious' news; it is to push so-called serious outlets into learning to present important information in ways that can properly engage audiences. It is too easy to claim that serious things must be, and can almost afford to be, a bit boring. The challenge is to transcend the current dichotomy between those outlets that offer thoughtful but impotent instruction on the one hand and those that provide sensationalism stripped of responsibility on the other.	responsibility presentation sensationalism interest news thoughtfulness seriousness engagement	Alain de Botton
4acd4be	Mahlke couldn't joke. He sometimes tried. But everything he did, touched or said, became solemn, significant, monumental;	joking seriousness	Günter Grass

473f92a

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

seriousness

Oscar Wilde

d00bcd4

Can't you ever be serious?' I said, mortified. 'It's difficult,' he said. 'There's so little in life that's worth it.

life panchaali palace-of-illusions krishna seriousness

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

a3957b2

"I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously." [

seriousness

Ray Bradbury

6ed9651

She couldn't avoid being serious about things she cared for, and happiness made her grave at the thought of all the things which might destroy it.

seriousness

Graham Greene

fab7f15

One must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.

life hobbies seriousness hobby enjoyment enjoy

Oscar Wilde John Cooper

57e227f

"And where," Socrates smiled, "is the universe?" "The universe is well, there are theories about how it's shaped..." "That's not what I asked. Where is it?" "I don't know - how can I answer that?" "That is the point. You cannot answer it, and you never will. There is no knowing about it. You are ignorant of where the universe is, and thus, where you are. In fact, you have no knowledge of where anything is or of What anything is or how is came to be. Life is a mystery. "My ignorance is based on this understanding. Your understanding is based on ignorance. This is why I am a humorous fool, and you are a serious jackass."

understanding seriousness ignorance

Dan Millman

e8c3cd8

The men who made the joke saw something deep which they could not express except by something silly and emphatic.

humour humor seriousness language

G.K. Chesterton

2f27b43

Earnestness is stupidity sent to college.

o-rourke p-j prertension seriousness

P.J. O'Rourke

7632518

But the answer isn't just to intimidate people into consuming more 'serious' news; it is to push so-called serious outlets into learning to present important information in ways that can properly engage audiences. It is too easy to claim that serious things must be, and can almost afford to be, a bit boring. The challenge is to transcend the current dichotomy between those outlets that offer thoughtful but impotent instruction on the one hand and those that provide sensationalism stripped of responsibility on the other.

responsibility presentation sensationalism interest news thoughtfulness seriousness engagement

Alain de Botton

4acd4be

Mahlke couldn't joke. He sometimes tried. But everything he did, touched or said, became solemn, significant, monumental;

joking seriousness

Günter Grass