A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to Farce, or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. and a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
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The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
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Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.
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The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.
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Does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce? No, that
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The difference between farce and humour in literature is, I suppose, that farce strums louder and louder on one string, while humour varies it...
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The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
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A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.
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There are times when one would like to end the whole human race, and finish the farce.
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There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
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There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.
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