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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
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Suffer
Silence
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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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Wait'll next year! is the favorite cry of baseball fans, football fans, hockey fans, and gardeners.
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Individuality' is the key to success.
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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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All that means is that something devastating can happen to you today or to your family & all you can do is cry about it or panic or just be grief-stricken about it but a year or two from now or maybe ten years from now, or maybe two months or two days, you might be able to see the humor in that problem.
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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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You wouldn't want Alan Greenspan to write the instructions for assembling a beach chair.
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They're combining that new fertility drug with a birth control pill for people who don't want triplets.
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Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.
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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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The secret of writing comedy is to know where it's all going, then get ahead of it.
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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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Anybody with a good sense of humor is one-up on their competition. We respond to somebody who has the ability to make us laugh. It's a bonding influence.
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I should warn you that underneath these clothes I'm wearing boxer shorts and I know how to use them.
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Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some of the smaller countries are neutral.
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