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A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done

A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable

Billy Graham

Keep your sense of humor. As General Joe Stillwell said, "The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of his behind.

Donald Rumsfeld

The most valuable sense of humor is the kind that enables a person to see instantly what it isn't safe to laugh at

Donald Rumsfeld

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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.

Hugh Sidey

Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.

Joe Paterno

The moral sense is the first excellence of well-organized man.

Thomas Jefferson

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone... they will be forced to deal with pain.

James Arthur Baldwin

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.

John Stuart Mill

The opinions which we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself

Marcel Proust

A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life - what people are interested in. That's journalism.

Burton Rascoe

To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.

Joan Didion

You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people

Will Rogers

We must respect the other fellow's religion,but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

Henry Louis Mencken

Religions sprang up among men to deal with the sometimes terrifying aspects of existence, to make sense out of the senseless, to explain things we find inexplicable

Gore Vidal

No religion is a true religion that does not make men tingle to their finger tips with a sense of infinite hazard.

William Ernest Hocking

In youth, everything seems possible; but we reach a point in the middle years when we realize that we are never going to reach all the shining goals we had set for ourselves, with what grace we can, to living with our ulcers and arthritis, our sense

Adlai E. Stevenson

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life

Henri Frederic Amiel

Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them.

Robert Jarvik

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

Stanley Milgram

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

Dalai Lama

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Common sense is as rare as genius, - is the basis of genius

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Common sense is genius in homespun.

Alfred North Whitehead

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