Mason Cooley Quotes

• Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.

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  Happiness, Attitude, Book

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• The critical spirit never knows when to stop meddling.

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  Critical Spirit, Meddling, Knows

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• Thoughts can be revised. Deeds cannot.

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  Thinking, Thoughtful, Deeds

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• Mistrust makes life difficult. Trust makes it risky.

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  Trust, Im Sorry, Father Son

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• Why not - is a slogan for an interesting life.

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  Interesting, Why Not, Interesting Life

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• Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.

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  Inspirational, Halloween, Autumn

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• Virtue sometimes pretends. Vice is always sincere.

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  Vices, Sometimes, Virtue

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• To understand someone, find out how he spends his money.

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  Money

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• At the end of every diet, the path curves back to the trough.

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  Loss, Curves, Path

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• Good books do not make people wiser or happier--only more conscious.

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  Book, People, Conscious

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• Nobody likes to offer stupidity as an excuse.

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  Stupidity, Likes, Excuse

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• We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled.

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  Literature, Baffled, Insult

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• Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.

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  Faith, Moving, Hiking

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• Poor but happy is not a phrase invented by a poor person.

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  Phrases, Poor, Persons

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• Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want?

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  Want, Flattery, Insult

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• Envy grieves. Jealousy rages.

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  Jealousy, Grieving, Envy

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• Trust, but look for the exits.

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  Trust, Exit, Looks

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• The language of pornography is abusive, that of romance adoring. Both are addressed to a fetish.

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  Romance, Language, Fetish

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• Political correctness is driving machismo underground and recalling effeminacy from exile.

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  Political, Driving, Exile

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• Modern thought does not offer consolations, but upsets.

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  Philosophical, Upset, Doe

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• Sweet smiles soften judgment. Sweet haunches unseat it.

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  Smile, Sweet, Judgment

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• Those who refuse to play second fiddle may wind up playing no fiddle at all.

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  Wind, Play, Arrogance

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• A sheep who goes looking for a wolf is sure to find one.

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  Sheep, Gone

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• To appear well dressed, be skinny and tall.

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  Style, Skinny, Well Dressed

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• Pessimists fear becoming the dupes of Hope. Optimists enjoy Hope's company, and consider being duped no great matter.

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  Hope, Fear, Optimism

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