Mason Cooley quotes - page 8

Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder. (Mason Cooley)
Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.
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Cure for an obsession: get another one.
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Moo may represent an idea, but only the cow knows.
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Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.
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Flattery and insults raise the same question: What do you want?
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If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.
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Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.
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Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.
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Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.
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Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm. (Mason Cooley)
Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.
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What lies behind appearance is usually another appearance.
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We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled.
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The time I kill is killing me.
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Documents create a paper reality we call proof.
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Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.
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To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.
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The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.
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I know that I am what I am. But I am not sure what I am.
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Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises. (Mason Cooley)
Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation.
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Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.
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Observe decorum, and it will open a path to morality.
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My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.
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