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I said in my earlier book, and find no reason for retracting my statement, that the famous Jewish sense of humour got lost in transit to Israel.

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George Mikes
Age: 75 †
Born: 1912
Born: February 15
Died: 1987
Died: August 30
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The poor Americans are so busy defending the rights of Hindus in Pakistan, Moslems in India, Jews in Palestine, Koreans in Japan, Italians in Yugoslavia and Hungarians in Czechoslovakia that they simply cannot give a thought to Negroes in the United States.
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Many Continentals think life is a game the English think cricket is a game.
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They (Americans) have their national game, baseball - which is cricket played with a strong American accent - and they have a national language, entirely their own, unlike any other language spoken on the earth.
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In Moscow they do not pay much attention to the living but keep their cemeteries in a splendid state.
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Jokes are better than war. Even the most aggressive jokes are better than the least aggressive wars. Even the longest jokes are better than the shortest wars.
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In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them.
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The Japanese are human beings like the rest of us, but they will strongly resent this insinuation.
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Japan is, you often feel, an improved version of the United States.
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Israelis keep teaching you your own business. God knows everything but the Israelis know everything better.
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A dog will flatter you but you have to flatter the cat.
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Once you start buying first aid kits you start having accidents.
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The Art of Conversation could not die in Australia it never lived. Television did not kill it there was nothing there to kill.
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It is often said that the Japanese are extremely clean at home, or inside any house or office, but dirty and untidy outside. 'Go and look at a railway station,' I was told, 'and you'll be horrified.' I went and was horrified horrified by the cleanliness of the place.
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Continental people have a sex life the English have hot-water bottles.
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English humor resembles the Loch Ness Monster in that both are famous but there is a strong suspicion that neither exists.
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Israel also deprived the world of its chance of shedding tears of genuine sympathy over her destruction. The world resents this it likes to feel noble and sympathetic.
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THE British are brave people. They can face anything, except reality.
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The British suffer from a most unfortunate superiority complex - unjustified even under Victoria and most certainly hopelessly out-of-date today.
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When a wicked and unworthy subject annoyed the Sultan of Turkey or the Czar of Russia, he had his head cut of without much ceremony but when the same happened in England, the monarch declared : We are not amused.
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