Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 22

• Fluency avoids hard thoughts.

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  Fluency, Eloquence, Hard

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• Enjoy the insult as you deliver it, before you learn its cost.

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  Cost, Insult, Enjoy

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• Your flattery is as full of contempt as your insults were.

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  Flattery, Insult, Contempt

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• Aimless drifting also fulfills an intention.

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  Ambition, Intention, Drifting

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• Imagination awakens ambition, then causes it to lose its way.

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  Ambition, Imagination, Way

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• Vanity is easily duped. Ambition, not.

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  Ambition, Vanity, Gullibility

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• Skepticism may undermine beliefs, but never belief.

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  May, Belief, Skepticism

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• Power makes gods. Virtue makes martyrs.

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  God, Power, Virtue

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• The life of pleasure breeds boredom. The life of duty breeds resentment.

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  Life, Boredom, Resentment

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• We do justice coldly, injustice hotly.

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  Justice, Injustice

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• Like other high subjects, the Law gives no ground to common sense.

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  Law, Common Sense, Giving

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• As a comforter, philosophy cannot compete with a good dinner.

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  Philosophy, Dinner, Eating

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• Pain pays no attention to moans or excuses.

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  Pain, Attention, Pay

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• Hope likes justification, but can do without.

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  Hope, Likes, Justification

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• The squabbles of philandering Zeus and shrewish Hera are the Greeks' comment on married life.

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  Marriage, Greek, Married

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• Yawns are hard to refute.

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  Boredom, Hard

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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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• When I am bored with myself, I try to find someone to listen to me.

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  Boredom, Bored, Trying

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• Pursuit of the approximate can conclude. Not so pursuit of the absolute.

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  Pursuit, Idealism, Absolutes

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• The idealist regards facts as provisional.

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  Facts, Idealism, Idealist

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• Some live in a state of passionate indecision.

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  Passionate, Indecision, States

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• Bad faith makes the most of every ambiguity.

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  Faith, Betrayal, Ambiguity

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• Undecidability is a useful category even in dealing with restaurant menus.

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  Restaurants, Menus, Categories

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• Most of my decisions in life seem absent-minded but inevitable.

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  Decision, Inevitable, Absent Minded

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