Evan Esar Quotes
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I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.
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We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.
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I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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'All in With Laila Ali' is educational, inspirational, compelling programming profiling individuals that have reached for the sky, pushed themselves to the limit and did things that you would think were impossible.
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week.
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Arguably Apple's least successful core hardware product in decades, the Apple Watch could have been nursed along, like a terminal patient.
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I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.
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We the Chinese nation have the spirit to fight the enemy to the last drop of our blood, the determination to recover our lost territory by our own efforts, and the ability to stand on our own feet in the family of nations.
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Dark hair fell in a sweep over his forehead. He looked like a man who would write vers libre, as indeed he did.
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Our Garrick's a salad; for in him we seeOil, vinegar, sugar, and saltness agree!
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Callas? She was pure electricity.
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Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
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When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.
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An army's bravest men are its cowards. The death which they would not meet at the hands of the enemy they will meet at the hands of their officers, with never a flinching.
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You're the soldier girl who tells the other troops who haven't fought the battle what it's like so they can fight it better.
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The introduction of the digit 0 or the group concept was general nonsense too, and mathematics was more or less stagnating for thousands of years because nobody was around to take such childish steps...
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Now my daughter's wedding is finished, I shall improve the economy in Taiwan.
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It's inspiring for me to know that you've got to step up your game.
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I write novels and other things.
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It's not the loss of life that makes the death bitter -- it's the obituaries.
