Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 7

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

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  Courage, Self, Doubt

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

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  Lying, Reason, No Reason

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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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• Glamour looks eloquent but seldom talks.

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  Looks, Glamour, Eloquent

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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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• Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.

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  New Year, Party, Literature

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• Faith no doubt moves mountains, but not necessarily to where we want them.

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  Faith, Moving, Doubt

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• My nostalgia is for the impossible.

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  Impossible, Nostalgia

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• Falling in love is the right adventure for those who dislike sports and travel.

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  Love, Sports, Fall

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• Transcendence is something between a metaphor and a miracle.

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  Miracle, Metaphor, Transcendence

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• Until I am ready to lose weight, I cannot see how fat I am.

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  Dieting, Weight, Lost

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• To Jane Austen, every fool is a treasure trove.

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  Treasure, Fool, Austen

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• I know God exits, but I don't know where.

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  God, Exit, Knowing God

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• A: Everything changes. B: But not enough.

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  Change, Things Change, Enough

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• Loving, not the beloved, is the joy of love. The beloved, knowing this, most resolutely declines to be grateful.

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  Love, Grateful, Knowing

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