Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 21

• Bravery despite defeat is praiseworthy. Victory despite cowardice is beyond praise.

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  Courage, Bravery, Victory

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• Looking backward at what has been lost, I feel sad, then indifferent, and at last relieved.

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  Loss, Lasts, Lost

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• Sometimes the given seems like something taken away.

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  Taken, Loss, Sometimes

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• Attachments and bereavements are inseparable.

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  Loss, Attachment, Bereavement

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• Since we hate the same people, we should be friends.

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  Hate, People, Should

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• Hatred makes me energetic, but confused.

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  Hate, Confused, Hatred

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• When love ends, we cry out against destiny. When friendship ends, we cry out against our friend.

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  Friendship, Destiny, Cry

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• An ardent lover often makes a cold friend.

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  Friendship, Old Friends, Lovers

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• Sleepy-head is no longer aroused by tragic imaginings.

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  Tragedy, Sleepy, Tragic

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• English has borrowed from everywhere and now goes everywhere.

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  Language, Borrowed

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• Unlike the ambiguity of life, the ambiguity of language does reach a limit.

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  Doe, Limits, Language

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• History takes place between the Fall and the Apocalypse, with a narrow escape route called Salvation.

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  Fall, History, Apocalypse

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• Truth-telling frightens me. Lying confuses me.

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  Truth, Lying, Telling The Truth

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• The grandeur of a philosophy does not certify its truth.

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  Truth, Philosophy, Philosophical

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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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• No use saying necessity is making a mistake.

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  Mistake, Making Mistakes, Use

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• God has replaced sex as the unmentionable.

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  God, Sex, Replaced

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• God may be a human creation, but He goes His way, not ours.

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  God, May, Way

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• Memory is imagination pinned down.

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  Memories, Imagination

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• The tranquility of my room partakes too much of Forest Lawn.

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  Silence, Too Much, Rooms

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• Civilization creates discontents; barbarism creates quick endings.

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  Civilization, Barbarism, Discontent

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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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