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“I think the scariest person in the world is the person with no sense of humor.”
“All my humor is based on destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing in the bread line - right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.”
“Basically, I think you need two things to get by in this world: a sense of humor and the ability to laugh when your ego is destroyed.”
“I want to show the world my humor.”
“The schizophrenic has no sense of humor. His world is a constantly daunting, unfriendly place.”
“Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.”
“What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.”
“Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.”
“World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation.”
“As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.”
“Germany was beaten after World War I, but it didn't take long for it to rise again as a much more malignant threat. The end of World War II was not to be a compromise; it was to come about from the...”
“The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.”
“Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful.”
“When I was a youngster growing up in South Dakota, we never referred to the national debt, it was always referred to as the war debt because it stemmed from World War I.”
“Running for President is physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually the most demanding single undertaking I can envisage unless it's World War III.”
“As soon as I read that, it clicked: that's my theater of war. It was exciting to think that I could write about World War Two from a totally new place.”
“I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.”
“Geopolitical drama lessened but did not die after the Cold War; in 2008, the specter of thousands of seeming automatons banging drums at the opening of the Beijing Games frightened and enthralled t...”
“Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this from the start during World War II.”
“There was a belief after World War I that painting could be an act of civil revolt. I want this exhibition, 'New Museum,' to be an act of civil disobedience. It's not so much about the New Museum o...”
