Mason Cooley Quotes
After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.
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I am a Buddhist.
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I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.
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We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return.
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They that are intoxicated by self-conceit have interposed themselves between it and the Divine and infallible Physician. Witness how they have entangled all men, themselves included, in the mesh of their devices. They can neither discover the cause of the disease, nor have they any knowledge of the remedy.
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However, it does seem now that the international community, more importantly the powers that have influence, and, even more importantly, Afghanistan's neighbors realize that it is high time that they work together, and not against one another.
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I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen they were reading about.
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Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it.
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The man who has perceived God looks upon all types of men as dream motion-picture images, made of the relativities of the light of Cosmic Consciousness and the shadows of delusion.
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Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
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I've always been fascinated by the concept of reincarnation. I learned that many brilliant people were interested in reincarnation, including Carl Jung. I'm a big Jungian. So I began writing novels involving theories integrating past and present, even if the past element in the novel took place 500 or 1,000 years ago.
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To create a work of art is to create the world.
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Sometimes in this game it's as good to be lucky as it is to be good.
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Term limits aren't enough. We need jail.
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You shouldn't have regrets. I'd say instead that I've learned a lot of lessons. Yes, I could have handled some things better. But they've also made me who I am today.
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I can recite poetry, but I cannot write it.
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I find that when I'm struggling to think of how a six-year-old would feel about something, I just have to go right down to the common denominator, find the simplest way that you can look at an object or a problem, and not muck it up with all of the stuff that adults do and over-analyze.
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I thought I would reflect here on a theme most scientists enjoy recalling: the part luck played in their accomplishments.
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I wanted to only create a great perfume, not any perfume that would sell, but a great artistic one that the fans would not feel cheated by.
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The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?
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I'm going to be who I am and believe in what I bring to the table every day.
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It must take account of what it decrees for today in order that today may not paralyze tomorrow.
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Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
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A woman who laughs is a woman conquered.
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After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.
