Hisham
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we don’t need to take ourselves so seriously in order to grapple with serious things.
“A ship in a harbour is safe. But that is not what ships are built for.”
― Invincible
― Invincible
“A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.”
― Humor, Seriously: Why Humor Is a Secret Weapon in Business and Life
― Humor, Seriously: Why Humor Is a Secret Weapon in Business and Life
“All wars end up being reduced to statistics, strategies, debates about their origins and results. These debates about war are important, but not more important than the human story of those who fought in them.”
― The First World War: A Complete History
― The First World War: A Complete History
“Fear is the greatest killer of creativity,” Asai explained, “and humor is the most effective tool I’ve found for insulating cultures from fear.”
― Humor, Seriously: Why Humor Is a Secret Weapon in Business and Life
― Humor, Seriously: Why Humor Is a Secret Weapon in Business and Life
“British and Indian troops were sent in, and an Indian Cavalry guard escorted them to work. That evening there was a further disturbance, and one of the labourers, Mohamed Ahmed, knocked a British officer unconscious with a stick and seized his rifle and bayonet, before being overpowered by three other Egyptians. Twelve days later he was tried for ‘a disturbance of a mutinous nature’, found guilty and shot.”
― The First World War: A Complete History
― The First World War: A Complete History
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