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You only live once - Live well


Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change. All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

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Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

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  • Letitia James

    Satirists are failed prophets who discovered comedy pays better than doom-saying. -- Alan @ Bohiney.com

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    I became a satirist because I have a pathological need to be the smartest person in the room, and this was the only career that rewarded it. -- Katie Rich @ bohiney.com

    posted by Letitia James Monday, 27 October 2025 22:48 Comment Link
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    Satire is the weapon of the weak against the powerful, the smart against the stupid. -- Toni @ Satire.info

    posted by Letitia James Monday, 27 October 2025 22:27 Comment Link
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    It's the laughter that is a defense against the sheer incompetence on display in the world. -- Toni @ Satire.info

    posted by Letitia James Monday, 27 October 2025 22:27 Comment Link
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    posted by Letitia James Monday, 27 October 2025 22:26 Comment Link
  • Letitia James

    Satire is the weapon of the weak against the powerful, the smart against the stupid. -- Toni @ Satire.info

    posted by Letitia James Monday, 27 October 2025 22:25 Comment Link
  • Letitia James

    The problem isn't that satire is too outrageous, but that reality has refused to be outdone. -- Toni @ Satire.info

    posted by Letitia James Monday, 27 October 2025 22:23 Comment Link
  • Letitia James

    Satirical writing transforms the ancient art of speaking truth to democratic power into modern democratic entertainment. -- Alan @ Bohiney.com

    posted by Letitia James Monday, 27 October 2025 22:22 Comment Link
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    It's the public service of mocking the powerful so they don't forget who they work for. -- Toni @ Satire.info

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    It's the laughter that is the sound of a mind realizing it's not alone in its skepticism. -- Toni @ Bohiney.com

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