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Quote by Leo Rosten
Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. I

Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers. – Leo Rosten

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The purpose of life is not to be happy – but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all. – Leo Rosten

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I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong. – Leo Rosten

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The comics that are just conversing with you up there and drawing on their own life, yeah, I guess so. I guess some do political humor, some do topical humor, but the ones that I like, the ones that are appealing to me, were guys who were just talking to you about their life. – Ray Romano

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Humor

I was a precocious only child, and then I went through a fat, awkward stage for several years, so I learned to fall back on my humor and personality when I was growing up. Its how you survive, so I think it was more of a natural progression for me, developing into comedy. – Ari Graynor

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Humor

Maybe theres a chance to get back to grown-up films. Anything that uses humor and dramatic values to deal with human emotions and gets down to what people are to people. – Robert Altman

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Humor

Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss. – Allen Klein

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Humor

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History is principally the inaccurate narration of events which ought not to have happened. – Earnest Albert Hooten, The Twilight of Man

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Sometimes, perhaps, we are allowed to get lost that we may find the right person to ask directions of. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work. – W. Edwards Deming

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The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customers place. – Orison Swett Marden

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