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A sigh is an amplifier for people who suffer in silence.

Robert Orben

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Robert Orben
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: March 4
Magician
Writer
the United States of America
Sigh
Suffer
Silence
Suffering
Funny
People
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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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Planned obsolescence is not really a new concept. God used it with people.
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Live your life so that if someone says 'Be yourself' it's good advice.
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The secret of writing comedy is to know where it's all going, then get ahead of it.
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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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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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We're supposed to take our problems to a family adviser. Personally, I've never met a family adviser. They're all off somewhere listening to dirty stories.
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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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What if the meek inherited the Earth and we had to defend ourselves from Martians?
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Sports like baseball, basketball, and hockey develop muscles. That's why Americans have the strongest eyes in the world.
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Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket.
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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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The Playboy Calendar this year has some tiptop models. Any more top and they'd tip.
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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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Have you noticed when you go on a diet, the first thing you lose is your temper.
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I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home.
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Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.
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