Evan Esar Quotes
The disadvantage of becoming wise is that you realize how foolish you've been.
Evan Esar
Quotes to Explore
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
Walter Cronkite
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Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.
Garth Nix
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My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.
Langston Hughes
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If you fire people, you fire customers.
Ferdinand Piech
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I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
Taraji P. Henson
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When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Sudan expelled bin Laden on May 18, 1996, to Afghanistan.
Barton Gellman
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The Qur'an is in many ways far less concrete than the Bible, relying on the esoteric more often than the apparent.
G. Willow Wilson
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Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known.
Samuel Johnson
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It's like a battle, trying to find the right words to say at the right time.
Tupac Shakur
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I am very much obliged to my dear little George for his message - for his love at least; his duty, I suppose, was only in consequence of some hint of my favourable intentions towards him from his father or mother. I am sincerely rejoiced, however, that I ever was born, since it has been the means of procuring him a dish of tea.
Jane Austen
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Barium, which is commonly found in power plant waste and scrubber wastewater, has been linked to heart problems and diseases in other organs.
Charles Duhigg
