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- Brooks Atkinson: American theatre critic
- Henry Brooks Adams: American historian
- Phillips Brooks: American Minister, Poet
- Arthur C. Brooks: American social scientist and musician
- Brooks Robinson: American professional baseball player
- Mel Brooks: American actor, writer, producer, director, comedian, and composer
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Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
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Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
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The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
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Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him.
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It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.
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The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty.
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A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.
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A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
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A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
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Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
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After each war there is a little less democracy to save.
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American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
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Apparently nobody really read it, it was a cheap movie, it fit their schedule in terms of things so fine, let the guy make that high school comedy. I used to work with Mel Brooks so they figured oh it's going to be one of those really silly movies and that's how it got made.
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As a political independent, I would gladly vote for any political party dedicated to limited government and entrepreneurship.
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As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore.
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Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.
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Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.
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