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Humor starts like a wildfire, but then continues on, smoldering, smoldering for years.

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Robert Orben
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: March 4
Magician
Writer
the United States of America
Wildfires
Continues
Starts
Humor
Years
Like
Wildfire
Smoldering

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Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains.... But it can put mountains where there are none. Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
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We have enough people who tell it like it is - now we could use a few who tell it like it can be.
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Inflation is the crabgrass in your savings.
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I'm beginning to wonder about my broker. Yesterday I told him to buy a hundred shares of A.T.&T. He said, 'Would you spell that?'
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There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.
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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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Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.
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A toast to the weapons of war, may they rust in peace.
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If you can get someone to laugh with you, they will be more willing to identify with you, listen to you. It parts the waters.
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With my luck, if I ever invested in General Motors, they'd bust it to Corporal!
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Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.
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It always seems to someone outside the business that it is very difficult to write for a comedy show because it must be done quickly. Actually, it is much easier to write this humor than to do a joke or a show from scratch, because the audience knows the plot. Just mention what is going on and then deliver the punch line.
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Vacation: When you spend thousands of dollars to see what rain looks like in different parts of the world.
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THe world now has so many problems that if Moses had come down from Mount Sinai today, the two tablets he'd carry would be aspirin.
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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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