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Things Happen For A Reason Quotes by Mason Cooley
- I am skeptical in principle, gullible in practice.
- Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful.
- Talk about yourself as much as you like, but do not expect others to listen.
- The shades of respectability begin to close about the greying head.
- The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.
- Promiscuity is like never reading past the first page. Monogamy is like reading the same book over and over.
- Minds will wander even during the Last Judgment.
- I love you to distraction, but Icannot see you until Thursday.
- My secrets are petty but humiliating.
- If there is no harm in asking, why guilt and fear when we do so?
- Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints Of the North have earned thiscrumb by their complaints.
- Skepticism may undermine beliefs, but never belief.
- For the purpose of knowledge, one must know how to use that inner current that draws us to a thing, and then the one that,…
- The young have stolen our youthfulness, and flaunt it without shame.
- Fortuna likes to find a crowd and follow it.
- Vulgarity is innocent; urbanity is not.
- If I want my time wasted, I'll waste it myself.
- My mother's mild-eyed sadness looks at me from the eyes of those I love.
- Saying I feel guilty is a mere form of words. Saying I feel ashamed is not.
- Confess to the misdeeds you cannot hide.
- Paradox implies that stating acontradiction disposes of it.
- Human nature is a scoundrel'sfavorite explanation.
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