Mel Brooks Quotes
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For thousands of years, we did have death surrounding us, and we did have people die in the home. You would take care of your own end. You would do ritual processes, and you would be involved in it, and that's been taken away in the Western world.
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The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.
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Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.
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Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
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Society doesn't like to deal with death, but it is a natural part of living.
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Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
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Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
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Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.
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The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
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When it comes to jump-starting the intricate machinery of recollection, there's nothing more effective than the scent of approaching death.
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But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.
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At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.
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I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire.
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I'm a klutz, through and through.
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Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.
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I've never done well when I've been appreciated. I've done best when I'm targeted for death.
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God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.
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I blame feminism and Facebook for the death of the American automobile. I'm a Republican, so I blame everything on feminism - or commies.
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Madness rides the star-wind... claws and teeth sharpened on centuries of corpses... dripping death astride a bacchanale of bats from nigh-black ruins of buried temples of Belial...
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The purpose of a funeral service is to comfort the living. It is important at a funeral to display excessive grief. This will show others how kind-hearted and loving you are and their improved opinion of you will be very comforting.
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Miracles are signs not to them that believe, but to them that believe not.
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We keep on fighting, we keep on playing. We won tonight and we're going to try to keep on winning.
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Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
