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" The first purpose of comedy is to make people laugh. Anything deeper is a bonus. Some comedians want to make people laugh and make them think about socially relevant issues, but comedy, by the very nature of the word, is to make people laugh. If people aren't laughing, it's not comedy. It's as simple as that. "

Trevor Noah

Purpose

People

Nature

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" I live in South Africa. I'm proud to live there. I've always said I want to be a comedian from South Africa in the world. I will stay in places for a bit here and there and pop into New York for a while, maybe stay in London for a year, but my home will always be South Africa. I enjoy it too much. "

" We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state. "

" Human nature is not black and white but black and grey. "

" Colors are the smiles of nature. "

" String Theory describes energy and matter as being composed of tiny, wiggling strands of energy that look like strings. And the pitch of a string's vibration determines the nature of its effect. "

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" My ideal setting is I walk from the streets, backstage, and straight onto the stage. Two minutes, and I am on the stage. That way, in my head I have gone from my world and then into a social setting with my friends. "

" Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby. "

" I'm not a big Hollywood guy. I don't know how the machine works. I leave that to people better than myself. "

" Ever since I was a small child, I've had this feeling - it's in my nature, and so it's not even pretentious - that if everyone's going one way, I will go the other, just by some kind of spirit of defiance. "

" I waste most of the day, then finally start to write around 3 P.M., totally disgusted with myself for my wasteful nature. "

" Nature is the one song of praise that never stops singing. "

" Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function. "

Garrison Keillor

Teach

Cats

" Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. "

" In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. "

Albert Camus

Summer

Winter

" The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man. "

" Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless. "

" Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has been so obvious, perhaps a weakness, as the centralized nature of Haitian society as being revealed by the earthquake. I mean, they lost all these medical training programs because they didn't have them anywhere else. "

" Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo. "

" People in cities may forget the soil for as long as a hundred years, but Mother Nature's memory is long and she will not let them forget indefinitely. "

Henry Cantwell Wallace

People

Nature

Mother

" Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. "

" I was born in South Africa during apartheid, a system of laws that made it illegal for people to mix in South Africa. And this was obviously awkward because I grew up in a mixed family. My mother's a black woman, South African Xhosa woman... and my father's Swiss, from Switzerland. "

" Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night. "

" We all have these shades in our nature: it's a spectrum within all of us. "

" When you look for the environment, you find things that are in it: a hammer, a smartphone, some rusty nails, a shed, a spider, some grass, a tree. So there is a big difference between environmentality and Nature. Nature is definitely something you can point to: it is 'over yonder' in the mountains, in my DNA, under the pavement. "

" Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn. "

" A bee is never as busy as it seems; it's just that it can't buzz any slower. "

" We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones. "

" Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet. "

" We have much to learn by studying nature and taking the time to tease out its secrets. "