Mason Cooley Quotes - Page 55

• Somehow the body keeps life going despite the ravaging negations of the mind.

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  Life, Mind, Body

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• Even in writing an annual report, the unconscious plays a role.

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  Writing, Play, Roles

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• Simplicity is a strict taskmaster.

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  Simplicity, Strict

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• Don't milk the cow too hard. She will kick you.

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  Cows, Milk, Kicks

  "City Aphorisms: Eleventh Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1993.

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• Doubt is long-winded. Certainty is brief.

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  Long, Doubt, Certainty

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• Wisdom cannot prevent a fall, but may cushion it.

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  Fall, May, Cushions

  "City Aphorisms: Twelfth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1993.

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• My obsessions used to be my protectors, but now they have taken me prisoner.

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  Taken, Obsession, Used

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• Curiosity, easily frightened, takes refuge in puzzles, murder mysteries, and spectator sports.

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  Sports, Murder Mysteries, Curiosity

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• Retirement is a one-way trip to insignificance.

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  Retirement, Way, Retiring

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• Failure makes us envious. Success makes us greedy.

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  Success, Greedy, Envious

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• Pleasure usually comes when called, but not happiness.

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  Happiness, Pleasure

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• Cheerfulness is a policy; happiness is a talent.

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  Happiness, Talent, Policy

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• Happiness is often hard-hearted.

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  Happiness, Hearted, Hard

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• Faith prefers the absurd to the plausible.

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  Faith, Absurd, Plausible

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• When death comes too near, comedy and tragedy fall silent.

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  Death, Fall, Tragedy

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• Comedy defends the commonplace; tragedy explodes it.

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  Tragedy, Comedy, Commonplace

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• Was there a little time between the invention of language and the coming of true and false?

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  Littles, True And False, Language

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• The nature of language may determine what most people say, but I always speak my own meaning.

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  People, May, Language

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• Language cannot say everything, fortunately.

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  Language

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• Reversing a proposition rearranges its terms, but still keeps out new terms.

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  Language, Term, Stills

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• History goes out of control almost as often as nature does.

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  History, Doe

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• I am plain-speaking out of both sides of my mouth.

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  Truth, Sides, Mouths

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• Profundity often goes past the issue to some deep but useless truth.

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  Truth, Past, Issues

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• Universal truths have become an embarrassment, but they won't quite go away.

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  Truth, Going Away, Embarrassment

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• The truths I shun follow me, mumbling.

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  Truth, Follow Me

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