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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Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.
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I didn't expect to find much visible trace of the American war in Vietnam. The Vietnamese are too hard-bitten to dwell on it, and they've sanded away all but the outcroppings of history - the museums, the memorials.
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What people don't realize is that professionals are sensational because of the fundamentals.
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I am so grateful to be alive. It's ridiculous to be alive.
