Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 9

• I am invigorated by work, wasted by pleasure.

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  Work, Pleasure

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• Nothing easier than to confuse busyness with goodness.

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  Work, Goodness, Easier

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• Work at first rescues us, then ravages us.

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  Work, Firsts, Rescue

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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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• Wit puts politicians at risk.

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  Risk, Politics, Politician

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• Talent shuffles the deck. Genius brings a new deck.

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  Genius, Talent, Deck

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• Genius knows where the questions are hidden.

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  Genius, Knows

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• The muse is blind as Cupid and skittish as Diana.

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  Inspirational, Blind, Muse

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• Make the expectations lively enough, and action will follow.

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  Expectations, Desire, Action

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• Do as you like--if you know what it is.

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  Action, Knows, Ifs

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• Confess to the misdeeds you cannot hide.

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  Misdeeds

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• Self-blame usually has an undertone of self-congratulation.

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  Congratulations, Self, Blame

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• To postpone unpleasantness is human; to forget it is divine.

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  God, Humanity, Forget

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• God improvises. Man systematizes.

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  God, Men, Humanity

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• Hope and despair ignore one another's cries.

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  Hope, Despair, Cry

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• The modernist writers found despair inspirational.

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  Despair, Found, Modernism

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• The perfect pleasure: money is neither fattening nor immoral nor illegal.

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  Money, Perfect, Pleasure

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• The egg is the symbol of perfection. Do you want an egg?

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  Eggs, Perfection, Want

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• Travelling, I worry about luggage, prices, and strange food. At home, I am free to broaden my mind by thinking about the higher things.

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  Travel, Home, Thinking

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• Sincerity guarantees nothing but itself.

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  Guarantees, Sincerity

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• Studying the past may suggest new ways of going wrong.

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  Past, May, Way

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• The power of the past does not depend on our knowledge of it.

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  Past, Doe, Depends

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• Modernized by tin roofs and T-shirts, Third World poverty is no longer picturesque.

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  Poverty, Tin, World

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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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