Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 14

• Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.

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  Inspirational, Compassion, Caregivers

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• Every path to a new understanding begins in confusion.

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  Confusion, Understanding, Path

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• Working cuts down on both folly and wisdom.

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  Work, Cutting, Folly

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• I can imagine many things, but few clearly.

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  Imagination, Imagine, I Can

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• The lyric deals with love and sorrow, the aphorism with contradiction and deceit.

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  Sorrow, Deceit, Contradiction

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• Dignity takes alarm at the unexpected sound of laughter.

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  Laughter, Alarms, Sound

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• A modest demeanor arouses thoughts of seduction.

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  Seduction, Modesty, Modest

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• Profusion gives pleasure up to a point; then we become squeamish.

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  Giving, Excess, Pleasure

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• Lack of reciprocity ruins friendships, but makes love affairs exciting for a time.

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  Time, Making Love, Ruins

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• I am open-minded on all questions I care nothing about.

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  Care, Fairness, Open Minded

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• Emblem: the carapace of the great crowned snail is painted with all the flags of the United Nations.

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  Flags, Emblems, Snail

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• I'm being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly.

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  Sex, Matter, Literature

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• Language is the friendliest of the things from which we cannot escape.

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  Language

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• The gods are watching, but idly, yawning.

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  Yawning

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• The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.

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  Lying

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• I am easy-going right up to the borders of my self-interest.

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  Self, Borders, Easy

  "City Aphorisms: Sixth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1989.

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• Life is what it makes you.

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  Life, Life Is

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• Suspicion is the beginning of wisdom, and of madness.

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  Madness, Suspicion

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• The limits of prudence: one cannot jump out of a burning building gradually.

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  Burning, Limits, Building

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• Moderation shifts when extremes do.

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  Moderation, Extremes

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• Worrying is as futile as boredom, but harder work.

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  Work, Worry, Boredom

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• Weakness is a better teacher than strength. Weakness must learn to understand the obstacles that strength brushes aside.

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  Strength, Teacher, Weakness

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• The real secrets are not the ones I tell.

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  Real, Secret

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• It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting.

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  Literature, Interpreting, Observing

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• A blunt statement can be as false as any other.

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  Stupid, Literature, Blunt

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