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" The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune. "

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" Sometimes I used to think to myself, 'Have I lost a sense of humor?' but I don't think that I have. I think one can be as snarky and sarcastic as lots of people, but I have never found that it makes me particularly happy. "

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" Jeffrey Zeldman had an astonishing ability to craft a seductive coolness using educated references, dry humor, and retro/organic imagery. "

" Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud. "

" Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures. "

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" 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. "

" Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin. "

" You can find heroism everyday, like guys working terrible jobs because they've got to support their families. Or as far as humor, the things I see on the job, on the street, are far funnier than anything you'll ever see on TV. "

" Absurdity is what I like most in life, and there's humor in struggling in ignorance. If you saw a man repeatedly running into a wall until he was a bloody pulp, after a while it would make you laugh because it becomes absurd. "

" We get to live in a time that we get to use social media as a tool. It's not just a face on a piece of paper, and that's what makes you someone's favorite model. We can have a very similar sense of humor as someone, and that's why we're their favorite model, or our personal style, off the runway, is why we're their favorite. "

" Humor is reason gone mad. "

" We take the shortest route to the puck and arrive in ill humor. "

" I think being a parent is knowing how to love. Sometimes love is discipline, sometimes it's humor, sometimes it's listening. "

Melissa Etheridge

" Professional comedians, surprisingly, have a lack of humor. They're insensitive to the insanity of our times. "

" A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life. "

" People with a sense of humor tend to be less egocentric and more realistic in their view of the world and more humble in moments of success and less defeated in times of travail. "

" Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives. "

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" In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue. "

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" There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble. "

" What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor. "

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" I love people who have a good sense of humor, tell a good story, tell a good joke. "

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" What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor, descriptive power, satire, originality, good literary style, clever condensation, and accuracy, accuracy, accuracy! "

Joseph Pulitzer