Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 22

• Ideas about life organize perception; names of emotions organize sensations; rules of syntax organize thought. But pain comes on its own.

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  Pain, Names, Ideas

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• Hope likes justification, but can do without.

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  Hope, Likes, Justification

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• The squabbles of philandering Zeus and shrewish Hera are the Greeks' comment on married life.

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  Marriage, Greek, Married

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• Yawns are hard to refute.

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  Boredom, Hard

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• Sexual boredom is ousting sexual deviance as the problem.

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  Boredom, Deviance, Problem

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• People are reluctant to cite boredom as grounds for divorce.

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  Divorce, People, Boredom

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• When I am bored with myself, I try to find someone to listen to me.

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  Boredom, Bored, Trying

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• Pursuit of the approximate can conclude. Not so pursuit of the absolute.

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  Pursuit, Idealism, Absolutes

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• I reject all evidence that my fabulous beloved is an ordinary person who worries, watches TV, and has bouts of indigestion.

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  Worry, Ordinary, Watches

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• Undecidability is a useful category even in dealing with restaurant menus.

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  Restaurants, Menus, Categories

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• Most of my decisions in life seem absent-minded but inevitable.

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  Decision, Inevitable, Absent Minded

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• I do not remember joy or sorrow in childhood, but listening for clues.

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  Childhood, Joy, Listening

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• Beware of wallflowers. They expect to have everything done for them.

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  Leadership, Done

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• Striving toward a goal puts a more pleasing construction on our advance toward death.

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  Death, Goal, Construction

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• Inequality is a fact. Equality is a value.

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  Equality, Facts, Inequality

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• Intelligence in isolation turns to aimless marauding.

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  Intelligence, Isolation, Turns

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• Intelligence without power cannibalizes itself.

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  Power, Intelligence

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• Intelligence is predatory, but full of fastidiousness and frights.

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  Intelligence, Fright, Predatory

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• Sentimentality is the respect the cold-hearted pay to feeling.

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  Respect, Heart, Feelings

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• The sentimental want to be thrilled by everything.

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  Want, Sentimental, Sentimentality

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• Laughter and tears may not persuade, but they cannot be refuted.

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  Laughter, Tears, May

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• An old man drinks tea and reads the newspaper--forgetting age for a moment.

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  Men, Tea, Age

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• After ages of bombast, the rhetoric of virtue has become ironic and shy.

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  Ironic, Age, Shy

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• Once discover comfort, and there is no turning back.

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  Comfort, No Turning Back

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• Blackmail is one of the great pastimes of family life.

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  Family, Family Life, Pastime

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