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Inflation is the crabgrass in your savings.

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Robert Orben
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: March 4
Magician
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the United States of America
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Inflation

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Do you realize what would happen if Moses were alive today? He'd go up to Mount Sinai, come back with the Ten Commandments, and spend the next eight years trying to get published.
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I understand the big food companies are developing a tearless onion. I think they can do it - after all, they've already given us tasteless bread.
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There are only two kinds of people in this world. The realists and the dreamers. The realists know where they are going and the dreamers have already been there.
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The Playboy Calendar this year has some tiptop models. Any more top and they'd tip.
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Humor is the most honest of emotions. Applause for a speech can be insincere, but with humor, if the audience doesn't like it there's no faking it.
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President Ford used humor a great deal.
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As much as we admire all the characteristics of a Ronald Reagan, as soon as something goes wrong, people will hate those same characteristics.
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Lincoln was known to have walked miles to borrow books, to get the most rudimentary form of education. So what do we do on his birthday? We close the schools!
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My wife never lies about her age. She just tells everyone she's as old as I am. Then she lies about my age.
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They say kids today don't know the value of a dollar. They certainly do know the value of a dollar. That's why they ask for five.
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If somebody accuses you in a story of being a crook, you can demand that they prove it. But if a comic says it and you protest, people say, 'What's the matter, you can't take a joke?
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Wait'll next year! is the favorite cry of baseball fans, football fans, hockey fans, and gardeners.
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If you can laugh together, you can work together.
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To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
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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.
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Economists can certainly disappoint you. One said that the economy would turn up by the last quarter. Well, I'm down to mine and it hasn't.
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Do you realize that in the past sixty years, the only foreigners the French have been able to drive out are American tourists?
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It's amazing how important your job is when you want the day off - and how unimportant it is when you want a raise.
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The chance to be seen as a warm, witty guy is too good an opportunity for a politician to miss.
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