Evan Esar Quotes
Do a little more every day than you are expected to do, and soon you will be expected to do more.
Evan Esar
Quotes to Explore
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Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.
Thomas Aquinas
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One of the dangers in prayer is to try to find words that will be somehow on the level of God. Unfortunately, as none of us are on a level with God, we fall short and waste a great deal of time in trying to find the right words.
Anthony of Sourozh
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Talking about painful events doesn’t necessarily establish community – often quite the contrary. Families and organizations may reject members who air the dirty laundry; friends and family can lost patience with people who get stuck in their grief or hurt. This is one reason why trauma victims often withdraw and why their stories become rote narratives, edited into a form least likely to provoke rejection.
Bessel van der Kolk
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Never say no to an idea - you never know how that idea will ignite another idea.
Stanley Kubrick
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Living an awakened life... is just a matter of where our attention is being placed. It is possible for our human-beingness and our true nature or presence to exist wonderfully well together, enriching each other through their closeness. It is through the power of our attention that we experience one or the other or both.
Alice Gardner
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At about six in the morning of July 3, 1860, while I was watering my petunias, and thinking of nothing in particular, I perceived coming towards me, a tall, beardless, fair-haired young fellow, wearing a German cap and gold-rimmed spectacles.
Edmond Francois Valentin About
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Our sense of being a person can come from being drawn into a wide social unit; our sense of selfhood can arise through the little ways in which we resist the pull. Our status is backed by the solid buildings of the world, while our sense of personal identity often resides in the cracks
Erving Goffman
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Very few pilots even know how to read Morse code anymore. But if a pilot could read Morse code, he could tell which beacon he was approaching by the code that was flashing from it.
Mike Ferguson
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Sometimes reality entirely flees the White House.
Edwin Newman
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We expected, I expected to find actual usable, chemical or biological weapons after we entered Iraq. But I have to accept, as the months have passed, it seems increasingly clear that at the time of invasion, Saddam did not have stockpiles of chemical or biological weapons ready to deploy.
Tony Blair
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The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.
Francis Bacon
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I don't think I'm particularly sexual, no more than anyone else, though I am very creative.
Rhona Mitra
