Evan Esar Quotes
A corporation has all the powers and privileges of an individual: all it lacks is a conscience.
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I think people appreciate honesty.
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'Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.
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I was very precocious when I was young. I went to college at 16, and I graduated at 20. I wanted to be a writer, but I was more interested in experience than in applying myself intellectually.
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Apart from its famous healing properties, manuka has a strong, woody flavour.
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We don’t forgive being as we are.
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Women have become so highly educated... that nothing should surprise us nowadays, except happy marriages.
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Elvis was the only man from Northeast Mississippi who could shake his hips and still be loved by rednecks, cops, and hippies.
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Without the Christian explanation of original sin, the seemingly silly story of Adam and Eve and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, there was no explanation of conflict. At all.
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When it became clear that in fact my father was saying, "It will be interesting to see what you want to do when you grow up," I realized that there was no pressure on that front. And I remember huge relief: Hey, I can go and do what I really know I have to do!
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I wanted to try this new drink: That's all we do, isn't it - look at things and try new drinks?
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Where love reigns, there's no need for laws.
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I am fascinated by quantum physics.
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In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.
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Nature delights in making use of the same forms in the most various biological connections: as it does, for instance, in the appearance of branch-like structures both in coral and in plants, and indeed in some forms of crystal and in certain chemical precipitates.
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The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.
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Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. It is strange that these voices often contradict each other?
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She was like me in lineaments-- her eyes Her hair, her features, all, to the very tone Even of her voice, they said were like to mine; But soften'd all, and temper'd into beauty; She had the same lone thoughts and wanderings, The quest of hidden knowledge, and a mind To comprehend the universe: nor these Alone, but with them gentler powers than mine, Pity, and smiles, and tears-- which I had not; And tenderness-- but that I had for her; Humility-- and that I never had. Her faults were mine-- her virtues were her own-- I loved her, and destroy'd her!
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But that was the best time of my life, and only now that it has gone from me forever -- only now do I realize it.
