Evan Esar Quotes
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An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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Remember, China is the largest country in the world, so they have the confidence, the capital and resources to create large companies.
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I'm not afraid to call a wine that tastes like Skittles or green peppers mixed with orange marmalade. I'll say, 'It tastes like chicken.' I mean, that's not what people think of when they think of wine, but that's what it tastes like to me and it hits home.
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Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.
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I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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Jazz is progressive, and it's alive.
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I never thought of myself as a songwriter. I was just an artist writing songs, and they just happened to get placed.
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Acting to me is real life - I don't act.
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People know me for up – tempo songs because of my hits.
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It doesn't always make sense to have a token on the blockchain that is both useful and represents ownership - it has to be something where there's a network effect. That's why I cite Facebook as an example of what could be disrupted more so than, say, Amazon - which is bit more centralized and is not exactly a network of users in the same way.
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For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.
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You can look at someone and get to know their music and say, 'This is someone who I want to work with.'
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Hollywood, that whole industry, is a lot like a really small town. You bump into the same people all the time. I think Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon can be played with anyone and everyone in Hollywood.
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God drove Cain out of his presence and sent him into exile far away from his native land, so that he passed from a life of human kindness to one which was more akin to the rude existence of a wild beast.
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That's why we're doing this, to defend our traditions a little. I don't have anything against it (Halloween), but it's not our tradition.
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The cause of war is preparation for war.
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The same mentality that leads to environmental despoliation, environmental destruction, also leads to damage to people.
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My father left me with his love of Jewish studies and cultural life. To this very day, along with several physicians and scientist colleagues, I take regular periodical lessons taught by a Rabbinical scholar on how the Jewish law views moral and ethical problems related to modern medicine and science.
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No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
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One of the questions on which clarity of thinking is now most necessary is that of the relation between the methods of science and of Marxist philosophy. Although much has already been written on the subject, yet there is still an enormous amount of confusion and contradictory statement.
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It takes far more courage to violate a custom than a law.
