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The more i live, the more i think that humor is the saving sense.
-Jacob August Riis
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The More I Live, The More I

Jacob August Riis
The more i live, the more i think that humor is the saving sense.
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The notion of saving the planet has nothing to do with intellectual honesty or science. the fact is that the planet was here long before us and will be here long after us. the planet is running fine. what people are talking about is saving themselves and saving their middle-class lifestyles and saving their cash flow.
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. . .a sense of humor can be a great help-particularly a sense of humor about (oneself). william howard taft joked about his own corpulence and people loved it; took nothing from his inherent dignity. lincoln eased tense moments with bawdy stories, and often poked fun at himself-and history honors him for this human quality. a sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
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The people in miami are so different from anywhere else i've been in america. they're so down to earth, really friendly, and quite self-effacing, with a good sense of humor. i'm not saying other parts of america don't have a sense of humor, but miami maybe has to have a really good sense of humor for lots of different reasons, and it works. it works for me.
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An interesting difference between african-american humor and jewish humor, in it's kind of basic or maybe most austere type form is, african-american humor, some of it comes out of playing the dozens in which you insult the other person or insult the other person's mother, and so much of jewish humor is like, you're insulting yourself. it's totally self-deprecating.
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Somebody who opposes trump is wound so tight, they're not funny people anyway, that they don't get his humor. they really believe when he tells these jokes that that's dead serious stuff. there's not enough laughter on the left. even their comedians are angry. their comedians, the humor they shoot for is all personal put-down kind of humor where it used to not be that way. but trump's humor, even the stuff that's not subtle, they miss, they take it literally and are frightened to death by it. it's incredible.
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