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

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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
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Bravery despite defeat is praiseworthy. Victory despite cowardice is beyond praise.
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Good manners protect the privileged, but leave the unprivileged more vulnerable.
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You know you're in love when you stop comparing.
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When love ends, the beloved is no longer standing on a pedestal, but in a hole.
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Many think that assigning blame settles matters.
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Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.
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Failures are easier to repeat than successes.
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Comedy is hostile to profundity, and brings everything to the surface.
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Complainers detest each other.
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Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.
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Self-pity makes people callous.
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The aphorist is a hit and run artist.
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Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals?
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Drugs bring us to to the gates of paradise, then keep us from entering.
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If a problem is insoluble, it is Necessity. Leave it alone.
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In the great cities, winter glitters with art and feasting. But poetry, the country cousin, sees only the dearth of the fields.
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The children of childish parents age quickly.
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Since events are not metaphors, the literal-minded have a certain advantage in dealing with them.
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Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.
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Money is a better tonic than Geritol.
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