Evan Esar Quotes
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To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
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Everyone has something that they desperately need that makes them feel good, that they don't want anything to get in the way of. Whether it's a man's golf game, whether it's a woman's cooking. I have a friend who has to clean. She's addicted to cleaning.
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I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
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The ultimate mystery is one's own self.
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TV news has largely given Trump editorial control.
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I do know some missed tackles usually that comes down to leverage, and I know those are correctable and fixable.
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To say I'm the easiest person to live with would be a lie.
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I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter.
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I want to thank my momma for pulling up. I want to thank my boys who was with me since day one; thank you for pulling up on me.
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I never refused my help to any person black or white; and I liked the office nonetheless because there were neither fees nor salary connected with it.
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I am sure that in the story of Adam and Eve, the forbidden fruit was a fig and not an apple, pear or anything else.
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I'm really shy - I don't do karaoke.
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When you look like I do, it's hard to get a table for one at Chuck E Cheese.
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What a man can be the next minute bears no relation to what he is or what he was the minute before.
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Implicit in the Hollywood formula of mom-by-option and dad-by-default is mom never at fault...to a fault.
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Through long and bitter experience, Rajasinghe had learned never to trust first impressions, but also never to ignore them.
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All I do is track a profane route to something (I hope) profound. Like swimming a river of shit for a kiss.
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We must acknowledge that the utter poverty of hundreds of millions of people is not a matter for compassion only, but a threat in the long term to the growth and vigor of the global economic system. We must see it as a part of our charge to help create economic opportunity so that the gap between the richest and poorest does not grow ever wider.
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The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.
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Prosperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
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Women should not be enlightened or educated in any way. They should, in fact, be segregated as they are the cause of hideous and involuntary erections in holy men.
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The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
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History belongs above all to the man...who needs models, teachers, comforters and cannot find them among his contemporaries.
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All men are born equal, but some of them outgrow it.
