Evan Esar Quotes
Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.
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I suffer from an amazing amount of insecurities, and I'm grateful that my body image, it's normally not something I pay attention to.
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I am a little older and understand the nature of the business - the older you get the more your skills supposedly diminish, but I think I am getting wiser in how to use my physical skills. That's the frustrating part when you put so much heart and desire into things and feel like you are not wanted.
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I have not seen 'Vaalu' yet, but I am sure it will be good.
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The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.
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I'm a homebody for sure. I do a lot of work at home.
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The way I see politics is, I don't think it's cynical to accept the fact politicians are human beings, that they're flawed, and they represent the best and the worst of us.
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Coming where I'm coming from, really, my family name isn't a pressure because, you know, music is not like sports, where you can go and do a hundred reps in a gym and come out and be all buffed up. Music is an expression of what's inside of you. And that's how I make music.
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The Defense Department must do a better job of providing the best possible care for service women who are victims of sexual assault.
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The background of the Negro culture is voodoo and magic; and the purposes the magic are control and power over God, man, nature and society. Voodoo and magic was the religion and life of America's Negro.
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When it comes to sexuality, sensuality, self-representation, self-nurturance - America fails in those departments.
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We can understand almost anything, but we can't understand how we understand.
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A full and candid admission of one's mistakes should make proof against its repetition.
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For avarice begins where poverty ends.
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My premise is that the popular aphorism that 'all religions are fundamentally the same and only superficially different' simply is not true. It is more correct to say that all religions are, at best, superficially similar but fundamentally different.
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Willpower is not some mythical force that we either have or don't have. Willpower is our decision to use higher mind thinking instead of lazing around in the clutches of our primal mind.
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In every age the wisest have passed the identical judgment on life: it is worthless.
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I am fascinated in religion and theology and what people believe.
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The qualities of a second-rate writer can easily be defined, but a first-rate writer can only be experienced. It is just the thing in him which escapes analysis that makes him first-rate.
