Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 24

• Hypocrisy is the outside of cynicism.

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  Hypocrisy, Cynicism

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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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• As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.

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  Struggle, Equality, Numbers

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• I do not regret the folly of my youth, but the timidity.

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  Regret, Fear, Youth

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• Most people see no reason to stop arguing just because an issue has been decided.

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  Issues, People, Arguing

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• Many gloat over their own troubles.

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  Literature, Trouble

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• Even cats grow lonely and anxious.

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  Lonely, Cat, Pet

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• Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.

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  Complaining, Literature, Complainers

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• If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.

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  Inspirational, Wisdom, Achievement

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• No one can remember himself as an unpleasant child.

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  Children, Remember

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• A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.

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  Cat, People, Pet

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• Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening.

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  Journalism, Happenings

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• The aftermath of joy is not usually more joy.

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  Joy, Aftermath

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• If a problem is insoluble, it is Necessity. Leave it alone.

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  Problem, Ifs

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• A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings.

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  Positive, Heart, Blessing

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• Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.

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  Past, Imagination, Taste

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• Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean.

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  Mean, Literature

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• Fame now wears the halo that once crowned holiness.

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  Halos, Holiness, Fame

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