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Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother

Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards. – Robert Orben

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Older people shouldnt eat health food, they need all the preservatives they can get. – Robert Orben

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Food
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In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis situations: fight or flee. In modern times, humor offers us a third alternative fight, flee – or laugh. – Robert Orben

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Humor
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I remember when humor was gentle pokes. I used to call it arm around the shoulder humor. Now they go for the jugular and they take no prisoners. Its mean, mean stuff. – Robert Orben

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Humor
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Other Quotes from
Society
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When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses – it was right after Roots, and for society, not me, it was great. Nice richly dark-skinned people was the fashion, and I was not. – Anna Deavere Smith

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Society

Well I believe in the desirability of an optimal society. – Tom Stoppard

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Society

Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks. – Stokely Carmichael

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Society

And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you cant just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that its much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers. – Sam Donaldson

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Society

Random Quotes

If I could create one job in the private sector by helping to grow a business, that would be one more than Congress has created in the last six months. – Evan Bayh

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Business

In many ways, history is marked as before and after Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down. – Jesse Jackson

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History

When I look back on my childhood, I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse around me forced me to grasp something many people miss: the fragility of peace. – Greg Kinnear

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Peace

In fact, Id just like to own something. Everyone thinks Im glamorous, rich and famous but all Ive got is some recording equipment and a battered old BMW. – Dido Armstrong

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famous