Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 42

• Curiosity is an asset mostly frittered away.

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  Curiosity, Assets

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• Curiosity engenders both science and scandal.

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  Curiosity, Scandal

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• To win hearts, smile kindly on people's weaknesses.

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  Smile, Heart, Winning

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• Many have never felt strong, but everyone knows what it is to feel weak.

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  Strong, Weakness, Feels

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• Helplessness is a mighty power.

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  Power, Weakness, Helplessness

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• I deplore my shortcomings, but plan to keep them.

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  Weakness, Plans, Shortcomings

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• Leisure unmasks our weaknesses.

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  Weakness, Leisure

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• Lies and promises are necessary but not sufficient.

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  Lying, Promise, Sufficient

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• Many who take up burdens come to resent being put upon.

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  Burden, Resent

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• The sun cares nothing for illumination.

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  Illumination, Care, Sun

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• The novelty we want is always close to the familiar.

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  Want, Novelty, Familiar

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• Good manners protect the privileged, but leave the unprivileged more vulnerable.

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  Good Man, Vulnerable, Manners

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• Something is sticking out its tongue at me from the corner of my mirror.

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  Mirrors, Tongue, Corners

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• Vulgarity is innocent; urbanity is not.

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  Vulgarity Is, Innocent, Sophistication

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• Holding unconventional opinions makes people feel they have strong characters.

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  Strong, Character, People

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• I change my opinions often, but not my way of thinking.

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  Thinking, Way, Opinion

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• Intellectuals have opinions on subjects they just heard about five minutes ago.

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  Opinion, Minutes, Heard

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• Methodology gives those with no ideas something to do.

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  Ideas, Giving, Methodology

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• Getting ready: the show girl scratches her breast and shakes out her feathers.

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  Girl, Scratches, Breasts

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• When I get the point, I often don't know what to do with it.

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  Comprehension, Knows

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• Sleaze is a point by point refutation of elegance.

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  Elegance, Sleazes, Refutation

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• Great talkers do not stop for breath, and never look at the clock.

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  Talking, Looks, Clock

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• Some subjects come up suddenly in our speech and cannot be silenced.

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  Talking, Silence, Speech

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• A dense undergrowth of extension cords sustains my upper world of lights, music, and machines of comfort.

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  Light, Comfort, Machines

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• Jargon: any technical language we do not understand.

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  Jargon, Language

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