Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 21

• We sometimes find truth, but more often it finds us.

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  Truth, Sometimes

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• Life is used up all the same, whether we save, spend, or waste it.

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  Life, Waste, Mortality

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• What I eat turns into my body. What I read turns into my mind.

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  Reading, Mind, Body

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• Civilization creates discontents; barbarism creates quick endings.

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  Civilization, Barbarism, Discontent

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• Some crave grief like strong drink.

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  Strong, Grief, Addiction

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• Metaphysics keeps surviving its obituaries.

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  Metaphysics, Obituary, Surviving

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• Adversity can strengthen us if it does not go on too long.

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  Adversity, Long, Doe

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• My reluctant charity shames both me and the recipient.

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  Charity, Shame, Reluctant

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• Fluency avoids hard thoughts.

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  Fluency, Eloquence, Hard

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• Enjoy the insult as you deliver it, before you learn its cost.

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  Cost, Insult, Enjoy

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• Your flattery is as full of contempt as your insults were.

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  Flattery, Insult, Contempt

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• Aimless drifting also fulfills an intention.

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  Ambition, Intention, Drifting

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• Imagination awakens ambition, then causes it to lose its way.

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  Ambition, Imagination, Way

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• Vanity is easily duped. Ambition, not.

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  Ambition, Vanity, Gullibility

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• When I try to portray to myself my heart's desire, nothing happens.

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  Heart, Desire, Trying

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• Skepticism may undermine beliefs, but never belief.

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  May, Belief, Skepticism

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• Lawyers may reason powerfully, but power settles most issues.

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  Power, Law, Issues

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• Power makes gods. Virtue makes martyrs.

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  God, Power, Virtue

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• Posterity--the forlorn child of nineteenth century optimism--grows ever harder to conceive.

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  Children, Optimism, Century

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• If the current is right, one can drift to success.

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  Success, Currents, Ifs

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• The life of pleasure breeds boredom. The life of duty breeds resentment.

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  Life, Boredom, Resentment

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• We do justice coldly, injustice hotly.

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  Justice, Injustice

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• Like other high subjects, the Law gives no ground to common sense.

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  Law, Common Sense, Giving

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• As a comforter, philosophy cannot compete with a good dinner.

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  Philosophy, Dinner, Eating

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• Pain pays no attention to moans or excuses.

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  Pain, Attention, Pay

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