Evan Esar Quotes
The lecturer who is full of his subject is usually very slow in emptying himself.
Evan Esar
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I've never had a cold Christmas, as I always spend it back home in Australia.
Mallory Jansen
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What if I said that every photograph I made was set up? From the photograph, you can't prove otherwise. You don't know anything from the photograph about how it was made, really.
Garry Winogrand
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I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.
Oscar Wilde
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When Judge Douglas says that whoever, or whatever community, wants slaves, they have a right to have them, he is perfectly logical if there is nothing wrong in the institution; but if you admit that it is wrong, he cannot logically say that anybody has a right to do wrong.
Abraham Lincoln
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We needed something dramatic. Maybe you have a different perspective when you're seeing it from the bench. It's kind of interesting how you can see things a whole lot easier from the bench than from when you're on the floor.
C. Vivian Stringer
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Charity itself fulfills the law. And who can sever love from charity?
William Shakespeare
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Not playing would be worse. These games are very important for our team. It doesn't matter what condition, I'm going to do my best. At least my mind is healthy.
Bobby Abreu
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Active management strategies demand uninstitutional behavior from institutions, creating a paradox that few can unravel. Establishing and maintaining an unconventional investment profile requires acceptance of uncomfortably idiosyncratic portfolios, which frequently appear downright imprudent in the eyes of conventional wisdom.
David F. Swensen
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When a fellow's got what he set out for in this world, he should go off into the woods for a few weeks now and then to make sure that he's still a man, and not a plug-hat and a frock-coat and a wad of bills.
George Horace Lorimer
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God can use the jawbone of an ass!
Winkie Pratney
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Thus it is a very serious lapse in scholarly competence and/or intellectual integrity for someone like Dawkins, an Oxford don who sees fit to pour scorn on the scholarly acumen and intellectual honesty of others, to treat the Five Ways as if they constituted Aquinas’s complete case for God’s existence, to ignore Aquinas’s responses to various objections, and to tell his readers that Aquinas gives “absolutely no reason” for certain claims that, as I have said, he actually devotes many hundreds of pages to defending.
Edward Feser
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The only thing over which you have complete right of control at all times is your mental attitude.
Napoleon Hill
