Evan Esar Quotes
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That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
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When I arrived in the U.S., I knew little English and didn't have any friends. The neighborhood and school kids were so welcoming. They made me feel at home very quickly.
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I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there?
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A national legal organization is giving very serious thought to using The Betrayal of America as a legal basis for asking the House Judiciary Committee to institute impeachment proceedings against these five justices.
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I am quite an early riser - I usually get up between 5.30 and 6am and take the dogs out.
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Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition tells man his purpose in this life.
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What did I do to be a villain? ... Well, I mean you can't look at it that way. I didn't initiate it. It's a situation where I showed restraint, and I moved on from there.
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It is hard, I found, to be called traitor. Strange how hard it is, for it's an easy name to call another man.
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I'm a bit cynical that it ever will be addressed properly. I think it is healthy to get some sort of copyright protection. But some of it has gone on forever.
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If I can wheedle
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Yeah, I know my way around some guns, which is weird because I have no time for them. I don't like them at all but I can take apart guns and put them back together and stuff, so I didn't have to go to the range. I don't think I will ever to go 'the range' again! I've done enough of that.
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Big government makes small citizens.
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To all that he touched he gave a new meaning, a new color, a new outline, a new loveliness, and a new poignancy.
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Inability, human incapacity, is the only boundary to an art.
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The wholly manly man lacks the wit necessary to give objective form to his soaring and secret dreams, and the wholly womanly woman is apt to be too cynical a creature to dream at all.
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God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from.
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Many of them have started selling their cattle crop to buy hay. If they're selling them to buy hay, they're not able to pay their other expenses.
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Thus does the Muse herself move men divinely inspired, and through them thus inspired a Chain hangs together of others inspired divinely likewise.
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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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Never think negatively, for the negative thinker does a very dangerous thing. He pumps out negative thoughts into the world around him and thus activates the world negatively.
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Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.
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America and Canada are the best friends. We've always been the best friends.
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Good teachers cost a lot; but, poor teachers cost a lot more.
