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“I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all ...”
“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.”
“There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.”
“Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.”
“I like the brooding man - a brooding man with a sense of humor.”
“A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.”
“Humor is a wonderful way to deal with our suffering because if we can laugh at our troubles, we can feel better. Thich Nhat Hanh is a special man who has helped millions with their suffering with i...”
“In the 'Hurt Locker' there's a lot of me in there, a sense of humor, a man of few words and a lot of action.”
“When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into p...”
“Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive one; it is man and not materials that counts.”
“Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.”
“A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.”
“It has too often been too easy for rulers and governments to incite man to war.”
“I am a Quaker. And as everyone knows, Quakers, for 300 years, have, on conscientious ground, been against participating in war. I was sentenced to three years in federal prison because I could not ...”
“Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?”
“There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.”
“There are only two sides to this question. Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war only patriots and traitors. ”
“Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.”
“The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.”
“The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.”
