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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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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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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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.
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Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep.
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The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
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Cultivate your garden Do not depend upon teachers to educate you follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony In the end, education, like happiness, is individual, and must come to us from life and from ourselves. There is no way; each pilgrim must make his own path. "Happiness," said Chamfort, "is not easily won; it is hard to find it in ourselves, and impossible to find it elsewhere.
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Every cook has to learn how to govern the state.
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Good teachers cost a lot; but, poor teachers cost a lot more.
