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Quote by Robert Orben
In prehistoric times, mankind often had only two choices in crisis

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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Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right? – Robert Orben

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Election Day
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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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Society
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Humor starts like a wildfire, but then continues on, smoldering, smoldering for years. – Robert Orben

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Humor
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Humor
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You can get through very serious and sometimes horrible and sometimes embarrassing and very awkward situations with humor. It gives us a way out. – Janet Evanovich

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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. Its jolted by every pebble on the road. – Henry Ward Beecher

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Humor

A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally. – John Ratzenberger

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Humor

It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them. – Edward de Bono

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Time stays, we go. – H. L. Mencken

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Time

Most of the approaches to peace between Israel and the Palestinians, have been directed at trying to resolve the most complex problems, like refugees and Jerusalem, which is akin to building the pyramid from the top down. – Benjamin Netanyahu

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Peace

I believe dreams represent the purest form of fantasy we unleash through our subconscious. They represent the truest freedom we can experience. Totally unrepressed and totally creative. – Miguel Jontel Pimentel

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Someone once defined humor as a way to keep from killing yourself. I keep my sense of humor and I stay alive. – Abe Burrows

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