Evan Esar Quotes
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Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.
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A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
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This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.
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I signed this girl's arm. And the next day, a family member shot me an email, and it was a link to this girl who had my signature tattooed on her arm. I was like, 'Man, that's dedication. I'm sorry you did that.'
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
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Basically hated everything made in the '80s, music television - it was really about the '90s for me. 'Encino Man' was a big hit. 'Robin Hood: Men in Tights.'
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Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.
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There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
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The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.
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War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
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In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he. She must be more steady, or more trustworthy, or more skilled, or more cheap in order to have the same chance of employment.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.
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I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
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The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.
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A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
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How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
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A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
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I work like a dog, really. I go over scripts like a mad man and just want to make sure I have my house built, so that I can just kind of go nuts inside of it.
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Each man is for his lord, do not give chase.
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It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously.
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Beloved Pan and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and the inward man be one.
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Economics is a very difficult subject. I've compared it to trying to learn how to repair a car when the engine is running.
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Only one man has the right to boast, and that's the man who never does.
