Evan Esar Quotes
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We acquire the strength we have overcome.
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I really have become convinced that nuclear fusion is our energy future. It's so powerful. I mean, it is the power of the stars. If we could bring that down to the laboratory and to the power plant on Earth, that would be an incredible thing.
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A suppressing person isn't critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of others.
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There's a Place in the Sun, where there's hope for everyone.
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The work of the world is common as mud.
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I try to preface everything with "this isn't new." Because most social movements have happened before and I get that. Nothing I'm doing is new.
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Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?
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No man (sic) has learned to live until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. Length without breadth is like a self-contained tributary having no outward flow to the ocean. Stagnant, still and stale, it lacks both life and freshness. In order to live creatively and meaningfully, our self-concern must be wedded to other concerns.
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All life is interrelated. The agony of the poor impoverishes the rich; the betterment of the poor enriches the rich. We are inevitably our brother's keeper because we are our brother's brother. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.
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That was the day that my brother was in our house again. In a strange and inexplicable way, my brother had come home.
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Windmills installed around the world converting their direct current into alternating current and feeding the electric energy into the world network can harvest the planet Earth's prime daily energy income source-the wind--and adequately supply all the world's energy needs
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I think, by nature, human beings are curious. And I think that's only amplified as an artist.
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Although not of the quality of my later work, I feel there is some quality to it [my early work] in an art sense, and probably some additional quality in a biographical sense.
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That's how it is in heaven. It's just love, and no one forgets who they love.
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Las Vegas is a resort whose two chief sources of income are seven and eleven.
