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This death cult has no reason and is beyond negotiation. This is what makes it so frightening. This is what causes so many to engage in a sort of mental diversion. They don't want to confront this horror. So they rush off in search of more comprehensible things to hate.


David Brooks

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GWENDOLYN BROOKS Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
MEL BROOKS Humor is just another defense against the universe.
MEL BROOKS Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pra...
PHILLIPS BROOKS I guess I was the class clown - with a name like Albert Einstein, you don't hide in the back. I&...
ALBERT BROOKS If you make your robot look exactly like Albert Einstein, then the robot better be as smart as Einst...
RODNEY BROOKS Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house.
THOMAS BROOKS The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out h...
PHILLIPS BROOKS We used to have food picked and used to have houses built and we used to have chicken properly proce...
MO BROOKS Writing fantasy lets me imagine a great deal more than, say, writing about alligators, and lets me w...
TERRY BROOKS Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the liv...
TERRY BROOKS When I went to acting school, the kids that got the best grades were the kids that could cry on cue....
ALBERT BROOKS I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able ...
TERRY BROOKS All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me...
MEL BROOKS The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.
PHILLIPS BROOKS Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the d...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.
PHILLIPS BROOKS The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.
PHILLIPS BROOKS Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of ma...
PHILLIPS BROOKS It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the ...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men!
PHILLIPS BROOKS Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like ...
PHILLIPS BROOKS The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of t...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurre...
PHILLIPS BROOKS The feet of the humblest may walk in the field Where the feet of the Holiest trod, This, then, is th...
PHILLIPS BROOKS It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.
PHILLIPS BROOKS Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.
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