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General statements omit what we really want to know. Example: some horses run faster than others.

Mason Cooley

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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
Aphorist
Others
Omit
Really
Horses
Statements
Faster
Horse
General
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Running

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Understanding replaces imaginary fears with real ones.
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Idleness makes people feeble and peevish. Work makes them stalwart and prone to anger.
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Never lie in writing.
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Every good time that goes on too long turns into a hell.
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Your love for me is founded in a sentiment. My love for you is founded in the body. A precarious interchange.
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Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.
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My father liked to moralize, and so do I. But he was in earnest, while I am embarrassed and pretend that I am merely being witty.
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The neuroses parody the virtues.
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A theology whose god is a metaphor is wasting its time.
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People invent gods to explain their suffering.
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To understand a literary style, consider what it omits.
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Aimless drifting also fulfills an intention.
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