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Friedrich Nietzsche
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Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs: He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
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Peter Ustinov
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I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilized music in the world.
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W. H. Auden
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
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Anne Rice
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The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.
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Mark Twain
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Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.
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Henry Elliot
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If its sanity you are after there is no recipe like laughter.
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Milton Berle
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Laughter is an instant vacation
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Milton Berle
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Laughter is an instant vacation.
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MILTON: _L'Allegro,_ Line 32.
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Laughter, holding both his sides.
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Arnold Glasgow
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Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.
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Mort Walker
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Seven days without laughter makes one weak.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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All things are cause for either laughter or weeping.
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Peter Ustinov
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Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.
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Karl Barth
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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.
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Allison Kearney
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Laughter is complete rapture vocalized.
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Eugene Lam
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Laughter is the best form of medicine. For when we laugh, we neither think, grieve, or feel.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs: He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
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Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
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Virginia
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The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
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Peter Ustinov
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I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilized music in the world.
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Rene Descartes
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Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.
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Stephen King
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You can't deny laughter when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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There are three things which are real God, human folly, and laughter. The first two are beyond our comprehension. So we must do what we can with the third.
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SHAKS.: _Mid. N. Dream,_ Act v., Sc. 1.
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More merry tears The passion of loud laughter never shed.
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Albert Einstein
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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.
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Gordon William Allport
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So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.
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Bennett Alfred Cerf
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The person who can bring the spirit of laughter into a room is indeed blessed.
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Kahlil Gibran
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The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers.
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Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis.
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Bill Cosby
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You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
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Searamouche
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What makes life worth living To be born with the gift of laughter and sense that the world is mad.
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Bill Cosby
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You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything --even poverty--you can survive it.
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Barbara Schapiro
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Sometimes the laughter in mothering is the recognition of the ironies and absurdities. Sometime, though, it's just pure, unthinking delight.
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Adolf Hitler
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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.
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Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey
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May your walls know joy May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.
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Helen Hayes
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From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.
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Julius Henry Marx
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From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion... I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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We look before and after, And pine for what is not Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
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John Gillespie Magee
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Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings.
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POPE: _Iliad,_ Bk. i., Line 770.
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Vulcan with awkward grace his office plies, And unextinguish'd laughter shakes the skies.
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Hilaire Belloc
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From quiet homes and first beginning, Out to the undiscovered ends, There's nothing worth the wear of winning, But laughter and the love of friends.
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E. H. Chapin
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Do not judge men by mere appearances for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.
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Cicero
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The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart mark and avoid him.
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Norman Cousins
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What was significant about the laughter . . . was not just the fact that it provides internal exercise for a person . . .a form of jogging for the innards, but that it creates a mood in which the other positive emotions can be put to work, too.
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Thomas Hobbes
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Laughter is nothing else but a sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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Have you heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market place, and cried incessantly, I seek God! I seek God! As many of those who do not believe in God were standing around just then, he provoked much laughter...
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Niccolo Machiavelli
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I hope and hoping feeds my pain
I weep and weeping feeds my failing heart
I laugh but the laughter does not pass within
I burn but the burning makes no mark outside
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Hugh Sidey
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A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.
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Robert
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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death.
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HERRICK: _Noble Numbers, Tears._
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Our present tears here, not our present laughter, Are but the handsells of our joys hereafter.
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Victor Hugo
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Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children, the light of the sun, the sighing of the wind, and the gleam of the stars-all the beauties of creation.
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[Humanity] has unquestionably one really effective weapon??”laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution??”these can lift at a colossal humbug??”push it a little??”weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and
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Laughter is inner jogging.
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Nobody ever died of laughter.
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The laughter of a man is the contentment of God.
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Laughter is the first evidence of freedom.
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The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
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Laughter is by definition healthy.
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Laughter: The shortest distance between two people.
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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship; and it is by far the best ending for one.
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Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.
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The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
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Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
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Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
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Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.
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At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
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Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.
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I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilised music in the world.
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I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience -- and laughter.
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Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.
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May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.
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Bricks and mortar make a house, but the laughter of children makes a home.
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From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
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Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
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And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
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Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that transforming laughter without which no hint of the ultimate reality of the opposites can be faintly intuited.
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Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul.
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The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at he
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For a significant man
woman, the one thought he values greatly, to the laughter and scorn of insignificant men, is a key to hidden treasure chambers; for those others, it is nothing but a piece of old iron.
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Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.
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Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.
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"Flagg stood, hands on his hips, and roared laughter up at the moon."
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"Love every song sung in lightness and laughter..." -Jarreau
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"Laughter is the closest distance between two people." -- Victor Borge
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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
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I always knew i would look back on my tears and laugh but i never tought i would look back on the laughter and cry
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Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul; and thus it may be looked on as weakness in the composition of human nature. But if we consider
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"Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful." -- Proverbs 14:13
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"And the forests will echo with laughter...." -Zep
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"No being can be truly sentient without laughter." Delenn
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The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.
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"Then I hear her laughter rising, rising from the deep" -Pink Floyd
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"HAAA"=laughter but "AAAH"=screaming, what's "AAHHAA"?
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