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Larry Gelbart

"A war is like when it rains in New York and everybody crowds into doorways, ya know? And they all get chummy together. Perfect strangers. The only difference, of course, is in a war it's also raining on the other side of the street and the people who are chummy over there are trying to kill the people who are over here who are chums."

Source : "Fictional character: Capt. Benjamin Franklin 'Hawkeye' Pierce". TV Series "M*A*S*H" ("The Interview", 1976), www.imdb.com. 1972-1983.

Larry Gelbart

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“I feel myself acting like a lunatic, but I can't stop. It would be like refusing to breathe.”
“I worked in an insurance office for six years, and it was there that I just woke up one day and realised there was something massively lacking in my life, and a non-contributory pension and a subsidised canteen could not fill it.”
“The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.”
“The sloth lives his life upside down. He is perfectly comfortable that way. If the blood rushes to his head, nothing happens because there is nothing to work on.”
“As to ethics, unfortunately, we are still at sea. We never did have any popular base for what little ethics we knew, except the religious theories, and now that our faith is shaken in those theories we cannot account for ethics at all. It is no wonder we behave badly, we are literally ignorant of the laws of ethics, which is the simplest of sciences, the most necessary, the most continuously needed. The childish misconduct of our 'revolted youth' is quite equaled by that of older people, and neither young nor old seem to have any understanding of the reasons why conduct is 'good' or 'bad.”
“To get into the character you have to really use your imagination.”

Source : "Cloverfield – Interview with Michael Stahl-David". Tribute Interview, www.tribute.ca. January 1, 2008.
“Bullying is the use of force, threat, or coercion to abuse, intimidate, or aggressively impose domination over others. Help a friend.”

Source : Twitter post from Apr 10, 2014
“Most of the villagers were hiding in the bush, where they were dying from bad water, malaria and malnutrition”

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