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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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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Here I am and there is my body dancing on glass.
Sarah Kane
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No individual rain drop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.
John Ruskin
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⋅Benedict XVI leaves no room for uncertainty or minimization. At this present time in which she feels humiliation, the Church learns from the Pope to not fear the truth, even when it is painful, to not hide it or cover it up. However, this does not mean enduring strategies to discredit (the Church) in general...It is appropriate, then, that we all return to calling things by their names at all times, to identify evil in all of its gravity and in the multiplicity of its manifestations.
Angelo Bagnasco
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I think that's okay and that is part of growing up and that is good, to learn that the world isn't always your oyster or isn't everybody's oyster.
Morgan Saylor
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Politeness is a tacit agreement that people's miserable defects, whether moral or intellectual, shall on either side be ignored and not be made the subject of reproach.
Arthur Schopenhauer
