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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There are jobs, particularly database-oriented ones, for which computers are necessary, but for everyday office life, I question whether they have brought the productivity that their enormous cost, up to £10,000 per person, demands.
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Most teachers we work with are intrigued to learn that abused and neglected students are likely to interpret any deviation from routine as danger and that their extreme reactions usually are expressions of traumatic stress.
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I am a hopeless romantic who falls in lust and gets in trouble. I love my work and am very productive, yet I always find time to play.
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The strengthening of faith, I think, is the ultimate goal of organized religion altogether.
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Acting is no longer about lying. It's now about revealing the truth. People are at ease with me now. Honesty is the best policy.
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Good teachers cost a lot; but, poor teachers cost a lot more.
