Evan Esar Quotes
Some taxpayers close their eyes, some stop their ears, some shut their mouths, but all pay through the nose.
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That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
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I like going to Japan where they treat it like a real sport. I like doing the entertainment stuff with the WWE. I really like doing the small venue stuff, like Ring of Honor, because everything is so intimate. There's different feelings and different experiences, and you have to be good at different things to do all of that.
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I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.
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The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors.
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I love palm strikes because you have a longer reach. Normally, when you give a left hook and then a right straight, you are too close for the right straight. Why? Because the hook is shorter.
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You are responsible for the energy that you create for yourself, and you're responsible for the energy that you bring to others.
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Feminism justified female 'victim power' by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.
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It is a well-known fact that bringing in technologies in retail sector is good for consumers.
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I've always felt that technology companies have disrespected the content creation process, and the content creation people disrespect technology.
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I have been very pleased at the response we have got for 'SVSC.'
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One of the reasons we don't have our deficit under control is because Republicans are wusses and won't tell their base a simple fact that everyone knows. We can't eliminate the deficit without raising some revenue... They're wusses.
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I've always been careful to put out the very best work I can. One of the things I value the most is the love and faith that people have given me over the years, so I try to live up to their expectations and my own standards of what I'm capable of.
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Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.
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But Lord! to see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at every thing that looks strange.
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If an interaction is too weak to be detectable or to exert influence in any way, then by any operational definition, it doesn’t exist.
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Then of the Thee in Me works behind The Veil, I lifted up my hands to find A Lamp amid the Darkness; and I heard, As from Without - 'The Me Within Thee Blind!'
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I fell into conversation with Douglas. His is a split personality. À deux he is delightful; clever, funny, observant, drily cynical. But get him anywhere near 'display mode', particularly if there are officials around, and he might as well have a corncob up his arse. Pompous, trite, high-sounding, cautiously guarded.
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
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Nadine, honey is that you? Oh, Nadine, honey is that you? Seems like every time I see you Darling, you got something else to do
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All of us salute the ITU's excellent work in the telecommunications space. It has set standards which encourage investment in infrastructure and ensure that a call made from Europe or America connects smoothly in Kenya or anywhere in the world.
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No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, cloath and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed, and lodged.
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Everybody jokes about that old story about the world only needing five computers, but when you think about it, that's where we're heading.
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We have no hesitation in declaring that we are a military nation- in the cause of Kodo and the highest morality.
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Some taxpayers close their eyes, some stop their ears, some shut their mouths, but all pay through the nose.
