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We [Americans] never really did have a real sense of humor. Not satire, anyway. We're a fatheaded, cotton-picking society. When we realize finally that we aren't God's given children, we'll understand satire.

— Bill Mauldin

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I was a born troublemaker and might as well earn a living at it.

The Brass Ring (1971)

Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.

No normal man who has smelled and associated with death ever wants to see any more of it.

Up Front (1945)

If you're a leader, you don't push wet spaghetti, you pull it.

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I'm convinced that the infantry is the group in the army which gives more and gets less than anybody else.

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