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.
Caitlin Doughty
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The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.
A. N. Wilson
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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.
Garrison Keillor
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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.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Society doesn't like to deal with death, but it is a natural part of living.
Harmon Killebrew
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Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
Abu Bakr
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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!
Patrick Henry
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Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.
Harold Brodkey
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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.
Edsger Dijkstra
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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.
Gary Krist
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But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.
Captain Beefheart
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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.
Oliver Reed
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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.
Ignatius of Antioch
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I'm a klutz, through and through.
Finn Wittrock
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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.
Paracelsus
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I've never done well when I've been appreciated. I've done best when I'm targeted for death.
Dan Harmon
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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.
Saint Ambrose
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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.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Death belongs to God alone; by what right do men touch that unknown thing?
Victor Hugo
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All beings tremble before violence. All love life. All fear death. See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do?
Gautama Buddha
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Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.
Lord Byron
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Only with these three kinds of creativity - technology, product planning, and marketing - can the public receive the benefit of a new technology.
Akio Morita
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The only thing that I know about Feyenoord, is that they are from the country of Ajax
Fabio Capello
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
Mel Brooks