Evan Esar Quotes
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Women are very intelligent and not appreciated. We try to pretend that we are not clever, and it's such a pity that we can't show how clever we are.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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If you want to grow a beard like mine, the only thing I can tell you is that you have to have patience. You just have to let it grow.
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Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.
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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
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The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.
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One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
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I am a feminist - I just think the label reflects my beliefs - but, you know, we say 'Rookie' is a website for teenage girls, not a feminist website for teenage girls. That's not because I'm not proud to call myself a feminist, but when you're calling attention to a project, you can very easily be pigeonholed by choosing certain identifiers.
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What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth.
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If youre in an awkward position, feel comfortable enough to walk away.
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Sarcasm all around the world is always against right wing and against people in power. That's the definition of political sarcasm.
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There are a few musicians that I know who seem on the outside like very asocial or somewhat unemotional people, people who aren't capable of emotions, and people think they're very cold inside.
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Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.
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I don't much like things to go by somebody's name, like the 'Bob Jones Group Jam Band.'
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We are blessed with a faith, which calls into action the whole intellectual man; which prescribes a reasonable service; which challenges the investigation of its evidences; and which, in the doctrine of immortality, invests the mind of man with a portion of the dignity of Divine intelligence.
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I don't have time for these clowns. I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity. They lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and just look at their loser lives and then look at me and they say 'I can't process it'. Well no, and you never will. Stop trying, just sit back and enjoy the show.
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You have to create little pockets of joy in your life to take care of yourself.
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If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.
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When I was young, I played the piano and studied classical music and jazz. I wanted to be a concert pianist, and if I'd devoted myself to it, I could have been. But it would have been too much work and a very lonely life.
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The oath of renunciation and allegiance is a solemn vow taken by thousands of immigrants each year to become a United States citizen. The oath is the fundamental statement of allegiance to the United States, and this allegiance is what unites America.
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The mind is pure and luminous by nature. It is defiled only by adventitious thoughts and emotions.
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Ego: The only thing that can keep growing without nourishment.
