Evan Esar Quotes
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I've never had a cold Christmas, as I always spend it back home in Australia.
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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.
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I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.
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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.
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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.
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Charity itself fulfills the law. And who can sever love from charity?
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I didn't grow up as a religious person under any sort of system or anything like that, I just felt like I've always been sort of intrigued by that - how it can make people's lives better - I mean, it's a powerful thing. So I was interested in thinking about that kind of stuff.
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Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as "foreign war"? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers?
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Heart is fun for the whole family!
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...Their problem was not that they failed to believe in God; it was that they did not know God; it was that they did not know God. It took only one generation for that knowledge to be lost. But it’s also true that what can be lost in one generation can also be restored in one generation
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Winter is beautiful, but bed is better.
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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.
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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.
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No individual rain drop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.
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Love where you are as much as where you're going so you'll never miss a moment of the journey.
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A great artist is never a closed subject, but this catalogue is a milestone production, as useful as it is beautiful.
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The lecturer who is full of his subject is usually very slow in emptying himself.
