Evan Esar Quotes
All men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with a mighty urge to become otherwise.
Evan Esar
Quotes to Explore
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At some point in our life, each of us is very likely to be a care getter or a care giver or both.
Jan Schakowsky
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If our opinions rest upon solid ground, those who attack them do not make us angry, but themselves ridiculous.
John Lancaster Spalding
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My background is on the stage, so when I'd write movies, they'd be a lot like plays.
Alan Alda
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Today I realize that many recent exercises in "deconstructive reading" read as if inspired by my parody. This is parody's mission: it must never be afraid of going too far. If its aim is true, it simply heralds what others will later produce, unblushing, with impassive and assertive gravity.
Umberto Eco
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Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .
Oscar Wilde
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Good speakers usually find when they finish that there have been four versions of the speech: the one they delivered, the one they prepared, the one the newspapers say was delivered, and the one on the way home they wish they had delivered.
Dale Carnegie
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Like all lawyers, I was delighted by gratitude. It happened so rarely.
C.J. Sansom
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We work and that is godlike.
J. G. Holland
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They did everything they could to make her renounce her position.
Pierre Pettigrew
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To the one party, woman is always heresy and diabolical. To me, the opposite.
Vincent Van Gogh
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In this cultural moment, many of us are feeling inadequate to solve societal problems - fascism, racism, misogyny, homophobia, anti-Semitism, the list goes on - and are unsure of how individuals can affect real change. We don't know what effect we will have on the current political climate as we strive to effect change. All large historical decision draw from a sea of smaller decisions. One never knows what will make the difference in the long run.
Sabina Murray
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Money is multiplied in practical value depending on the number of W's you control in your life: what you do, when you do it, where you do it, and with whom you do it.
Tim Ferriss
