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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I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
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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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If a man belittles a woman, it could become a lawsuit. If women belittle men, it's a Hallmark card.
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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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This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not 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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After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.
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If you love someone who is ruining his or her life because of faulty thinking, and you don't do anything about it because you are afraid of what others might think, it would seem that rather than being loving, you are in fact being heartless.
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There are two kinds of people on this Earth: Those who are content and those who are not.
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I'm going to start a polo team with my friend, and we're trying to collect as many horses as we can. You have to find time for things you love.
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There is no other organ quite like the uterus. If men had such an organ they would brag about it.
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Marriage counselors in particular all strongly recommend divorcees try to understand their role in a divorce before re-marrying. Statistics show if you re-marry before you've clearly seen things from the biter's point of view - you're re-bounded to fail again!
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Only one man has the right to boast, and that's the man who never does.
