John Cheever Quotes
Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
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I'm a good Muslim and I'm only interested in Islam.
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When I was 16, I filmed an episode of 'Full House' where my family goes to Disney World. I remember putting on baggy overalls just to hide my stomach. When I watched it, I was pretty disappointed and bummed out looking at myself... I didn't feel good about my own body.
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If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.
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I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.
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Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
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If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.
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I've written a lot of really good books. Now we'll see if I can write any more good books. I mean there's a chance I won't, but I'm going to try.
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You know in the West they support realistic forces.
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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
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Competition is good and has served us well.
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We took a plant that was being closed by a big company thinking there was no good use for it, and we came in with a different perspective. We bought some used equipment, as simple as we could.
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I learned a lot from Dick Wolf. I'll always remember playing that character because it was such a good character. It was great to be able to be a character like that for television. I think the thing that I'll bring from the whole experience, the whole 10 years, is I had never been interested in the television business before.
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There is no age better than another. The commitment to give of yourself and the knowledge that the time is right are what's important.
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.
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There are lots of people depending on the government who are good, honest citizens who have worked all their lives.
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When you really work hard for something that you genuinely and truly love, and you don't want it to fail, it's a good feeling to see it do good.
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We know about the socially complex lives of elephants: how they communicate, how they bond, how they even seem to grieve. We have ethologists in the field and activists on the ground to thank for that knowledge.
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The mystery of the evening-star brilliant in silence and distance between the downward-surging plunge of the sun and the vast, hollow seething of inpouring night. The magnificence of the watchful morning-star, that watches between the night and the day, the gleaming clue to the two opposites.
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Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.
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Thus evolved some members of the Core-not altruists, but desperate survivalists who realized that the only way ultimately to win their never-ending zero-sum game was to stop the game. And to stop the game they needed to evolve into a species capable of empathy.
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Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
