Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 30

• Moralists love to discourse on the hollowness of success; about the hollowness of failure they are silent.

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  Success, Silent, Hollowness

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• The sewing machine joins what the scissors have cut asunder, plus whatever else comes in its path.

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  Cutting, Machines, Path

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• While there's life, there's fear.

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  Literature

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• Sloth, not ill-will, makes me unjust.

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  Ill Will, Sloth, Literature

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• Children consider disliking their parents natural, but if the dislike is returned, they are outraged.

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  Children, Parent, Natural

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• Children would die of terror if they knew the folly and ignorance of their caretakers.

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  Children, Ignorance, Terror

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• Liberal Doctrine: it is not children who misbehave, but parents.

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  Children, Parent, Doctrine

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• Children must be protected not because they are innocent but because they are powerless.

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  Children, Power, Innocence

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• Neat trick: to be roused to ambition and reconciled to one's mediocrity at the same time.

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  Time, Ambition, Mediocrity

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• Mortality: not acquittal but a series of postponements is what we hope for.

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  Mortality, Acquittal, Series

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• The New York action painters want their pictures to jump off the walls and chase you down the street.

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  New York, Wall, Want

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• The Enlightenment needs more shadow; the Romantic Movement less.

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  Romantic, Shadow, Enlightenment

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• Wit saves us from being swallowed whole by life.

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  Wit, Whole

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• True wit has a grave intention.

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  Intention, Graves, Wit

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• In comedy, the witty style wins out over every mishap of the plot.

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  Witty, Winning, Style

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• Wit: a whim followed by a wham.

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  Whim, Wit

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• City wits, country humorists.

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  Funny, Country, Cities

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• If folly disappeared, wit would starve.

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  Wit, Folly, Ifs

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• Sometimes "Yes" is rhetoric enough.

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  Sometimes, Enough, Yeah

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• Like love, destruction can be ecstatic.

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  Like Love, Destruction, Ecstatic

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• God makes the covenant, and observes it as He pleases.

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  God, Covenant, Please

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• I resist change even as I call for it.

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  Change

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• People invent gods to explain their suffering.

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  God, People, Suffering

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• The young are amazed when they suffer.

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  Suffering, Youth, Young

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• Suffering teaches us only that we suffer. Joy shows us which way to go.

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  Joy, Suffering, Way

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