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I don't mind going back to daylight saving time. With inflation, the hour will be the only thing I've saved all year.

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Victor Borge
Age: 91 †
Born: 1909
Born: January 3
Died: 2000
Died: December 23
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Børge Rosenbaum
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Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.
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If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.
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I know [canned music] makes chickens lay more eggs and factory workers produce more. But how much more can they get out of you on an elevator?
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The conductor is a peculiar person. He turns his back on his friends in the audience, shakes a stick at his players in the orchestra, and then wonders why nobody loves him.
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My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.
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