Evan Esar Quotes
Do a little more every day than you are expected to do, and soon you will be expected to do more.
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The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't.
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This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.
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My only experience with American things is through movies.
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Falling in love is not an act of will. It is not a conscious choice. No matter how open to or eager for it we may be, the experience may still elude us. Contrarily, the experience may capture us at times when we are definitely not seeking it, when it is inconvenient and undesirable.
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We now have the largest surplus in history, ... As we commit ourselves to finding ways to secure our retirement programs, we also commit ourselves to bringing fairness to the tax code.
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When you play in a band, you're in phase with people. When you're a DJ, you're totally off-phase. Your work time is 3 A.M. - 5 A.M. and I don't think you can connect. You're miserable the whole time. Whenever I see a DJ in the airport, they are always on the verge of crying.
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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.
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Never say no to an idea - you never know how that idea will ignite another idea.
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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.
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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
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Sometimes reality entirely flees the White House.
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It's more than unsettling to realize there are large companies out there developing backdoors, exploits and trojans.
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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I never expected to be approached for an ad campaign.
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We were not expected to win or even get the tie. We were big-time underdogs in this game in everybody's eyes except our own people. You can say that this probably means more to us than to the American team.
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I expected the illegible and the deeply buried in me to be read as if carved on my forehead, just as I expected the obvious and the ill-concealed to be hidden from view.
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In some weird, warped way, I'm actually convinced that if I got mugged, I could probably take out the guy.
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I preach freedom of the mind through freedom of the body; women, for example - out of the prison of corsets.
