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• I was playing when I invented the aqualung. I think play is the most serious thing in the world.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Thinking, Play, World

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• Anybody is qualified, according to everybody, for giving opinions upon poetry. It is not so in chemistry and mathematics. Nor is it so, I believe, in whist and the polka. But then these are more serious things.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Believe, Giving, Opinion

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• Great use they have, when in the hands
  Of one like me, who understands,
  Who understands the time and place,
  The person, manner, and the grace,
  Which fools neglect; so that we find,
  If all the requisites are join'd,
  From whence a perfect joke must spring,
  A joke's a very serious thing.

  Charles Churchill

  Spring, Humor, Hands

  Charles Churchill, William Tooke (1804). “The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill”, p.200

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• It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing.

  Winston Churchill

  World, Belief, Amusing

  Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books

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• I don't think it was much of a forum for positive or negative feedback; it was mainly, "How can I make somebody laugh?" It wasn't a serious thing where I needed people to give me feedback.

  Cakes da killa

  Thinking, People, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed.

  C. S. Lewis

  Lying, Truthful, Found

  C. S. Lewis (2010). “A Year with Aslan: Daily Reflections from The Chronicles of Narnia”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• A joke is a very serious thing.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Humorous, Seriousness

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• Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the case especially in many English-language newspapers. Instead, they contain a political message, and the artist takes full responsibility.

  Umberto Eco

  Responsibility, Artist, Political

  "Don't smile when you say that" by Umberto Eco, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2002.

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• Giving up even an ounce of precious freedom is a very serious thing to do.

  Charles Schumer

  Giving Up, Things To Do, Giving

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• Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mean, Technology, Toys

  Walden ch. 1 (1854)

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• Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.

  James Thurber

  Humor, Thinking, Hair

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• Suicide is a serious thing. And if you know anyone who is suicidal, you need to get them help. No one should be in pain. Everyone should love themselves.

  Gerard Way

  Suicide, Pain, Suicidal

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• She knew that she belonged to this man, body and soul. Every trace of shame departed; it was burnt out by the fire that consumed her. She gave him a thousand opportunities; she fought to turn his words to serious things. He baffled her with his shallow smile and ready tongue, that twisted all topics to triviality. By six o'clock she was morally on her knees before him; she was imploring him to stay to dinner with her. He refused.

  Aleister Crowley

  Opportunity, Men, Fire

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• Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Serious Person, World

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1670, Delphi Classics

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• A Centaur has a man-stomach and a horse-stomach. And of course both want breakfast. So first of all he has porridge and pavenders and kidneys and bacon and omlette and cold ham and toast and marmalade and coffee and beer. And after that he tends to the horse part of himself by grazing for an hour or so and finishing up with a hot mash, some oats, and a bag of sugar. That's why it's such a serious thing to ask a Centaur to stay for the weeekend. A very serious thing indeed.

  C. S. Lewis

  Horse, Coffee, Beer

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• When I think about moguls, I think like Donald Trump who... owns NYC practically. That's a mogul. I feel like I'm on my way to a lot more, but mogul is a really serious thing. I think it's a word that gets thrown around easily.

  Tyra Banks

  Thinking, Nyc, Moguls

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• It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible Gods and Goddesses. To remember that the dullest, and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship.

  C. S. Lewis

  One Day, Would Be, Gods And Goddesses

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.197, Simon and Schuster

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• They keep coming up new all the time - things to perplex you, you know. You settle one question and there's another right after. There are so many things to be thought over and decided when you're beginning to grow up. It keeps me busy all the time thinking them over and deciding what's right. It's a serious thing to grow up, isn't it, Marilla?

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Growing Up, Thinking, Busy

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “The Complete Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery - 20 Titles in One Volume: Including Anne of Green Gables Series, Emily Starr Trilogy, The Blue Castle, The Story Girl & Pat of Silver Bush Series: Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Ingleside, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, Emily of New Moon, The Golden Road, Magic for Marigold, A Tangled Web, Jane of Lantern Hill & many more”, p.203, e-artnow

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• a father for whom everything is an unshakable duty, for whom there is a right way and a wrong way and nothing in between, a father whose compound of ambitions, biases, and beliefs is so unruffled by careful thinking that he isn’t as easy to escape from as he seems. Limited men with limitless energy; men quick to be friendly and quick to be fed up; men for whom the most serious thing in life is to keep going despite everything. And we were their sons. It was our job to love them.

  Philip Roth

  Jobs, Father, Ambition

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• You know," he (Tweedledee) added very gravely, "it's one of the most serious things that can possibly happen to one in a battle--to get one's head cut off." pg. 199

  Lewis Carroll

  Cutting, Battle, Serious

  "Through the Looking-Glass". Book by Lewis Carroll, Chapter 4: Tweedledum And Tweedledee, 1871.

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• For it is a serious thing to have been watched. We all radiate something curiously intimate when we believe ourselves to be alone.

  E. M. Forster

  Believe, Intimate, Has Beens

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.95, Delphi Classics

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• If Boris [Johnson] backtracks on serious things there'll be another bloody revolt.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Johnson, Bloody, Revolt

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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• I've not really had a bad Christmas. Apart from serious things, like when my father died. He rather spoiled the party and I've never forgiven him for falling off the twig on Christmas Day.

  John Nettles

  Father, Party, Fall

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Collaborating with the musical genius of our time in some ways with Prince himself - late, great Gerald Levert,all these are forms of singing education, what the Greeks call paideia,that deep education to get us to shift from superficial things to serious things, to shift from bling-bling to life and death to justice and pain and joy, those fundamental, elemental things that we must come to terms with as we make our moves from our mother's womb to the tomb.

  Cornel West

  Mother, Pain, Moving

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• ...the most serious thing, and the strangest, is that we are afraid to the point of panic, not so much of seeing ourselves as of being seen by ourselves. This is our root absurdity. What is behind this great fear?

  Rene Daumal

  Roots, Panic, Absurdity

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