Evan Esar Quotes
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In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten, then he who continues the attack wins.
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To master fear is the most important battle to win.
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There may be one million people who love me, there may be 10 million people who hate me. What do I do? I go to battle for those 1 million people.
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This is why we shouldn't be afraid. There are two possibilities: One is that there's more to life than the physical life, that our souls "will find an even higher place to dwell" when this life is over. If that's true, there's no reason to fear failure or death. The other possibility is that this life is all there is. And if that's true, then we have to really live it - we have to take it for everything it has and "die enormous" instead of "living dormant," as I said way back on "Can I Live." Either way, fear is a waste of time.
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Your life is your own, your glory is your glory, but you will lose it if you keep it for yourself. Grasp it for the sake of others.
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There are always those who would put on armour and go into battle. but the real genius is in finding a way to get what you desire without dying for it.
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I went through an experience that taught me that as soon as you think that you know how your life is going to be, something in the universe will make you realize that you really are not that in control of it.
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Life is simple. Make good decisions and good things happen. Make bad decisions and bad things happen.
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There are no gods here, no ghosts and spirits in America, there are no angels in America, no spiritual past, no racial past, there's only the political, and the decoys and the ploys to maneuver around the inescapable battle of politics.
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Life is sacred. Life is art. Life is sacred art.
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I have just read your dispatch about sore-tongued and fatigued horses, Will you pardon me for asking what the horses of your army have done since the Battle of Antietam that fatigues anything?
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Nothing in life is more necessary than friendship.
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For WAR, consisteth not in Battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the Will to content by Battle is sufficiently known.... So the nature of War, consisteth not in actual fighting; but in the known disposition thereto, during all the time there is no assurance to the contrary. All other time is PEACE.
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Our brave soldiers and support personnel are engaged in a battle as important as any the United States has ever before waged, for the success of democracy in Iraq is a crucial test of the ideals this Nation was founded upon.
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The color of the king doth come and go, Between his purpose and his conscience, Like heralds 'twixt two dreadful battles set: His passion is so ripe, it needs must break.
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The last great struggle for our rights; the battle for our own civilization, is entirely with ourselves, and the problem is to be solved by us.
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Life is what matters, life alone - the continuous, eternal process of discovering life - and not the discovery itself.
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We do not understand that life is paradise, for it suffices only to wish to understand it, and at once paradise will appear in front of us in its beauty.
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I just go in the studio and do what I love to do. People will be people, they'll come and go, they'll like you then not like you, I just try to stay true to myself first and that's what most important because that way when you are successful you can stand up and say look, I did it my way and I did it the way that I wanted to do it.
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To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.
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A fresh mind keeps the body fresh.
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We've somehow allowed ourselves to think it's okay to neglect and abandon our responsibility to ourselves and to our community. Everything cannot be blamed on the system.
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Life is a battle of wits, and many people have to fight it unarmed.
