Evan Esar Quotes
Lecturers should remember that the capacity of the mind to absorb is limited to what the seat can endure.
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If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.
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I'm always jumping in my seat or gasping during a good horror movie.
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You absorb so much from whatever your environment is, as an artist, and you learn to take from it what can help you create.
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the ruder lecturers are, and the louder their voices, the more converts they make to their opinions.
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I've sat on the hot seat and I felt its hotness.
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Professors known as outstanding lecturers do two things; they use a simple plan and many examples.
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Once you absorb the maths, it’s all perfectly clear.
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Rock n' roll to me is all about freedom of thought and to be whatever you want to be.
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Should we choose to extend our airstrikes into Syria, we will be doing this in the collective self-defence of Iraq. We would be doing this out of a responsibility to protect innocent people at risk of horrible death from the most violent people imaginable.
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A boss wants to pay for results, an employee wants recognition for effort. If a boss recognizes effort, they will get even better results.
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For those of us who take literature very seriously, picking up a work of fiction is the start of an adventure comparable in anticipatory excitement to what I imagine is felt by an athlete warming up for a competition, a mountain climber preparing for the ascent: it is the beginning of a process whose outcome is unknown, one that promises the thrill and elation of success but may as easily end in bitter disappointment. Committed readers realize at a certain point that literature is where we have learned a good part of the little we know about living.
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I feel like I missed my era, because I remember the time when black people uplifted each other and looked for the positives. I feel sorry for the people who live their lives in the negative default setting because they filter out what's good, and that's no way to live.
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The president does have a significant negative power, bigger than the Senate upper house. It is harder to overrule the president’s veto than to approve a law which has been rejected by the higher chamber. This would lead to a continuous conflict and the inability to sort out many important issues.
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Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything!
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People are quite shocked when you remind them that Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never wrote a song that they recorded in their lives, as far as I know.
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We have to have the money to do the work we want to do, as well as to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table. Fat commissions are good, but not always easy to come by, and each new painting takes its time. So we need to find every way possible to earn extra income from our work.
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You need a little bit of the crazy to keep things fun.
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We want the public to feel ownership in the process. We have to look at our finances. We have $1.5-million to work with. We are operating under two constraints -- time and money. If the public comes back with more (money for other options), it's up to council to approve it. Council is an integral part of the process.
