Evan Esar Quotes
The Lord takes care of his own, but church trustees still put lightning rods on the steeple.
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I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.
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Well, she managed to - Barbara was capable of doing practically anything if she set her mind to it. In retrospect, I'm not surprised that Barbara managed to get collect calls through.
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The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
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I am neither the handsomest nor the richest nor the most powerful, but I've had the greatest women in the world.
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Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
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Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.
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When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?
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Do not try to be humble: learn humility.
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They did some things early on in there that threw us some curve balls. On defense, they did a real good coaching job on that part. We had to kind of struggle to get things going again, but we did control the ball, which is a big deal.
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Yes, we should consider ways to address the deficit and bring real, direct relief to the gulf region, ... but we must not lose sight of maintaining the infrastructure that supports our economy and way of life.
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Surrender to life itself and you'll just be rewarded with so many things. And I've been rewarded so many times, in so many mysterious ways. So I have no reason to be disappointed with anything.
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The Christian church is an encyclopedia of prehistoric cults.
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Untouchability is a many-headed monster and forms, some of them so subtle as not to be easily detected.
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When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work, because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation
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In praising Antony I have dispraised Caesar.
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Opposition can be useful. Every opposition movement is good and useful if it acts within the law... If there are people who act outside the law, then the state must use legal means to impose law in the interests of the majority. That's the way it's done in the U.S. and that's the way it's done in Russia.
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The Lord takes care of his own, but church trustees still put lightning rods on the steeple.
