Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 7

• An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie.

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  Lying, Reason, No Reason

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• Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.

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  Elude Us, Literature, Elude

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• Life just keeps unfolding, ignoring our praise or blame.

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  Life, Blame, Praise

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• Perhaps fortunately, no one has ever found out what it would be like to have all his wishes fulfilled.

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  Wish, Would Be, Found

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• If I had found the words I was looking for, I would not have read so much.

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  Reading, Found, Ifs

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• The more knowledge, the clearer what the doubts are.

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  Knowledge, Doubt, More Knowledge

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• Regret leads to overeating and naps.

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  Regret, Naps, Overeating

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• Failures are easier to repeat than successes.

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  Success, Failure, Easier

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• Worry is not thought; complaining is not action.

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  Worry, Complaining, Action

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• The best hand always believes in playing by the rules.

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  Believe, Hands, Always Believe

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• Courage overrides self-doubt, but does not end it.

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  Courage, Self, Doubt

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• The avant-garde is now stranded in the past.

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  Past, Avant Garde, Stranded

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• The smile of a politician is strong and friendly, but noncommittal.

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  Strong, Friendly, Politics

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• Confess to the misdeeds you cannot hide.

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  Misdeeds

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• Alcohol postpones anxiety, then multiplies it.

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  Anxiety, Alcohol, Alcoholism

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• My regimen is lust and avarice for exercise, gluttony and sloth for relaxation.

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  Exercise, Lust, Relaxation

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• Reason argues the case, but fact may determine the judgment.

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  May, Facts, Arguing

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• In retirement, only money and symptoms are consequential.

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  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

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• The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people's.

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  Self, People, Literature

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• The parade was here, but it disappeared around a corner.

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  Action, Parades, Corners

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• Being cultured is the least expensive form of respectability.

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  Culture, Form, Expensive

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• Paradise endangered: garden snakes and mice are appearing in the shadowy corners of Dutch Old Master paintings.

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  Garden, Snakes, Paradise

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• Authority is conferred by position, not character.

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  Character, Authority, Position

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• Moo may represent an idea, but only the cow knows.

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  Ideas, May, Cows

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• True self is the part of us that does not change when circumstances do.

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  Self, Doe, Circumstances

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