"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die."
-Mel Brooks
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"I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.“
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"Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love."
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"Humor is just another defense against the universe."
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"I don't believe in this business of being behind, better to be in front."
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"Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive."
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"A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance."
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"Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life."
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"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."
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"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse."
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"The first casualty when war comes is truth."
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"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
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