Evan Esar Quotes
There would be no population explosion if people who are trying to keep the wolf from the door wouldn't let the stork fly in through the window.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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That word, fan, has always kind of bothered me.
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I don't care about how much other actors get.
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Success is so bad for everybody, period. Especially a certain kind of success, when people practically give up their identity. They forget who they are, how they are.
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I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write.
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When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.
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I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
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To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.
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If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.
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I don't have friends, and it's hard for me to make new friends. Right now, the people that are in my life are the people that I work with.
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One of the things that I love to do is travel around the world and look at archaeological sites. Because archaeology gives us an opportunity to study past civilizations, and see where they succeeded and where they failed. Use science to, you know, work backwards and say, 'Well, really, what were they thinking?'
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Can it be fancied that Deity ever vindictivelyMade in his image a mannikin merely to madden it?
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That should probably be written: no !@#$%^&*:@!semicolon
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Heart on her lips, and soul within her eyes, Soft as her clime, and sunny as her skies.
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During the course of many years of investigation into the plant life of the world, creating new forms, modifying old ones, adapting others to new conditions, and blending still others, I have constantly been impressed with the similarity between the organization and development of plant and human life.
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...in general, the traditionalists are backward-looking, conservative; pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
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Quand les riches se font la guerre, ce sont les pauvres qui meurent.
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The people of Alabama are fed up. They are tired of politicians who lie to them, and they are sick of elected officials who've been in Washington so long they've forgotten why they ran in the first place.
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You know, last season I didn't do anything on the show, so I was frustrated. I mean, don't get me wrong: It's nice to get a paycheck. But if you don't really do anything it's not very satisfying.
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Doing risk sports had taught me another important lesson: never exceed your limits. You push the envelope and you live for those moments when you’re right on the edge, but you don’t go over. You have to be true to yourself; you have to know your strengths and limitations and live within your means. The same is true for a business. The sooner a company tries to be what it is not, the sooner it tries to ‘have it all,’ the sooner it will die.
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I've destroyed my feet completely but I don't care. What do you really need your feet for anyway.
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Houston, we've had a problem.
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I remember my mom saying that when I was little, I had this light that shined really big, and that she'd watched my light become very dark.
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There would be no population explosion if people who are trying to keep the wolf from the door wouldn't let the stork fly in through the window.
