Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 13

• Without a little negligence, life would be intolerable.

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  Would Be, Littles, Forgetfulness

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• Original sin reassures us that our slip was not the first.

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  Firsts, Sin, Slips

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• Loneliness is more likely to lead to fussy housekeeping than to grand views of the Universe.

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  Loneliness, Views, Housekeeping

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• Go ahead and voice your criticisms, but don't expect to be invited back.

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  Voice, Criticism, Invited

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• Small successes are still successes; great failures are still failures.

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  Success, Failure, Stills

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• In love as in art, good technique helps.

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  Love, Art, Technique

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• Few things are worth doing perfectly.

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  Perfection

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• Anyone who feels like a fool has made a good beginning.

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  Fool, Made, Feels

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• Existence is not a mystery unless you think it has a meaning.

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  Thinking, Mystery, Existence

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• We often mistake the original part of ourselves for a weakness.

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  Mistake, Weakness, Originality

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• Conformity makes everything easier, if you can still breathe.

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  Conformity, Breathe, Easier

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• As night falls, every joy glows brighter.

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  Fall, Night, Joy

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• People are not the way they are primarily in order to annoy me.

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  Self, Order, People

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• I am the center of the world, but the control panel seems to be somewhere else.

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  Self, Somewhere Else, World

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• Gossip is dying out because fewer and fewer people care to talk about anything besides themselves.

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  People, Gossip, Dying

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• Losing gracefully is commended but never chosen.

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  Losing, Chosen

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• Manly men and womanly women are still here but feeling nervous.

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  Men, Feelings, Nervous

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• Three people marooned on a desert island would soon reinvent politics.

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  Islands, People, Three

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• To gain a reputation for virtue, grieve over those you injure.

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  Grieving, Gains, Reputation

  "City Aphorisms, Fourth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1987.

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• Wisdom remembers. Happiness forgets.

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  Remember, Forget

  "City Aphorisms: Third Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1986.

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• The older we become, the more certain our future.

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  Destiny, Aging, Certain

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• After I have said what is required by my vanity and my morality, I may find a moment for Truth.

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  Truth, Vanity, May

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• Truth is a necessary phantom.

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  Truth, Phantoms, Truth Is

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• Plato's Symposium shows that flirtation and philosophy can further one another.

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  Plato, Philosophy, Philosophical

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• The mind scolds the heart, which makes excuses and goes its own way.

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  Heart, Mind, Way

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