"If a person sings quietly to himself on……" — Edward Hoagland
"If a person sings quietly to himself on the street people smile with approval; but if he talks it's not alright; they think he's crazy. The singer is presumed to be happy and the talker unhappy..."
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38 Quotes by Edward Hoagland
Edward Hoagland has 38 quotes on this site.
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Suicidal thinking, if serious, can be a kind of death scare, comparable to suffering a heart attack or undergoing a…
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It would be hard to define chaos better than as a world where children decide they don't want to live.
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To relive the relationship between owner and slave we can consider how we treat our cars and dogs - a…
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There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this…
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Men greet each other with a sock on the arm, women with a hug, and the hug wears better in…
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Men often compete with one another until the day they die. Comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.
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Country people do not behave as if they think life is short; they live on the principle that it is…
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Many divorces are not really the result of irreparable injury but involve, instead, a desire on the part of the…
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There aren't many irritations to match the condescension which a woman metes out to a man who she believes has…
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The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if so,…
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Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga - stylized because even the most acute of them have…
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It's incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion. Less…
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Ageing's alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.
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They never sought in vain that sought the Lord alright!
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Go away... I'm alright.
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Don't worry chief, it will be alright.
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As they were leading me up, I looked up and around the galleries and I could feel the whole Aboriginal…
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My choice is what I choose to do and if I'm causing no harm it shouldn't bother you. Your choice…
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