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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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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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 untouchability is rooted out, these distinctions will vanish and no one will consider himself superior to any other.
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The most terrible of all my battles was the one before Moscow. The French showed themselves to be worthy of victory, but the Russians showed themselves worthy of being invincible.
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The Lord is pleased with every effort, even the tiny, daily ones in which we strive to be more like Him.
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It's strong to be vulnerable. To be able to communicate with other women is one of the most powerful things.
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I can't just watch a horror movie and leave it at that. The scary parts just stick with me. It kind of infiltrates my brain and sometimes I can't sleep at night, so usually I don't go and voluntarily watch one.
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The Lord takes care of his own, but church trustees still put lightning rods on the steeple.
