Evan Esar Quotes
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If you're not a parent, if you're an aunt or uncle or neighbor, books are an amazing gift.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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The majority of people who buy homes in golf course communities don't play golf. Golf is way down at the bottom in terms of total numbers and growth.
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Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
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When you or your loved ones escape repression, you often find yourself committed to ensuring that freedom prevails.
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I do not know why I have always been fascinated by science or why I have been driven by the intense desire to make some original contribution. And although I have had some degree of success as a scientist, it is hard to say precisely why.
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I've met so many who have opened doors for me and remained in my life both personally and professionally. After a while, networking doesn't feel like 'networking.' It's both serendipitous and unpredictable, and something that just naturally becomes part of your work life and your personal life.
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I am livid with rage, sitting here in chains through this mad war which kills any meaning of life... My nerves are shattered and my mind darkened.
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Socially, the Cuban revolution created an education system and health service that remain the envy of much of the neo-liberal world.
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I'd love to play Wonder Woman.
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At the Jets training facility in Florham Park, N.J., we have strength and conditioning staff but also a nutritionist, Glen Tobias, who helps to whip everyone into shape. There is a heavy emphasis on grass-fed meat and on foods that aren't genetically modified.
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If our children are becoming teenagers who are abusive, have mental health issues, and are committing heinous crime, it only means that we have failed them as a society. We have failed to give them a safe, nurturing environment to ensure that they are well-balanced, useful persons in the society.
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If you want boots on the ground, and you want them to be our sons and daughters, you got 14 other choices. There will always be a Bush or Clinton for you, if you want to go back to war in Iraq. But the thing is, the first war was a mistake. And I'm not sending our sons and our daughters back to Iraq.
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The creative act requires both will and intelligence. Breaking things is easy. You only need a hammer.
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When people fear surveillance, whether it exists or not, they grow afraid to speak their minds and hearts freely to their government or to anyone else.
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Politics is a game of compromise.
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Yet in my lineaments they traceSome features of my father's face.
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When I go to a library and I see the librarian at her desk reading, I'm afraid to interrupt her, even though she sits there specifically so that she may be interrupted, even though being interrupted for reasons like this by people like me is her very job.
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It's hard to win a pennant, but it's harder to lose one.
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I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.
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That's about three of the toughest losses I've been through, ... This is going to be a real test for us. We'll see what we're made of here.
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Life is a game played on us while we are playing other games.
