Evan Esar Quotes
If it required some effort to go from today to tomorrow, some people would always remain in yesterday.
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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
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The idea of 'advice,' in terms of telling people advice or asking people for advice, has become not comprehensible to me, to a certain degree, due to feeling, like, for something to be accurately defined as 'good' or 'bad,' I would want to know the context, goal, perspective for it.
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When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
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Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.
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We want enough people adopting Bitcoin for a robust infrastructure. It's an act of patriotism. It gives the country a robust parallel system.
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I can be more cold than people would like me to be.
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The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.
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There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare.
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As a leader of a majority-Muslim nation, I believe Islamic countries must better understand what young people aspire to.
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Anybody who says they don't want to be seen on a show which has millions of people watching it at one time when they're in the business of selling records is a bit silly.
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I'm hoping one day to open my own shelter. I would be the person with the three-legged dog. I just love animals more than people; I really do.
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I've heard people say in the U.N. community among mediators they don't like women as mediators because they're too quick to compromise.
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During 'Chicago Hope,' I never let directors talk to me, because I was so spoiled. I started off with people like Milos Forman, Sidney Lumet, James Lapine, unbelievably gifted people. So there I was, saying, 'Don't talk to me, I don't want your opinion.' I behaved abominably.
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I think we need politicians; we need people who want to serve.
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I never think about what I want. It's about what you want to give to other people.
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And we believe in democracy - that the only real source of legitimacy is the consent of the people; that every individual is born equal with fundamental rights, inalienable rights, and that it is the responsibility of governments to uphold these rights.
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'Protests are a part of our democratic heritage and our democratic privilege ... US and British efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq are finally getting those countries to the place that actually people might have the same privilege of protest'. The Guardian, 2003-11-15
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When you're dancing, you're dancing for people to see.
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Like most people, I have a dark side, but because of roles I played early on, people tend not to guess that.
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Economy is going without something you do want in case you should, some day, want something you probably won't want.
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A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.
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I really feel very strongly that the person who runs for office is the courageous one, and the one who everybody has to know.
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I grew up in the Southern Baptist Church, where my father was a minister at music, so I sang in the church all the time.
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If it required some effort to go from today to tomorrow, some people would always remain in yesterday.
