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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.
Robert Orben
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Robert Orben
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: March 4
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the United States of America
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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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The chance to be seen as a warm, witty guy is too good an opportunity for a politician to miss.
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I may be forty, but every morning when I get up, I feel like a twenty-year-old. Unfortunately, there's never one around.
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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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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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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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There are days when it takes all you've got just to keep up with the losers.
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