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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
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When money disappears, we soon understand the power of absence.
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Being cultured is the least expensive form of respectability.
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Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.
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Unlike other vices, cruelty, alas, is never boring.
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Birth dates and bathroom scales tell more truth than I want to know.
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Wisdom is founded on memory happiness on forgetfulness.
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Skepticism may undermine beliefs, but never belief.
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Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.
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Every life has a love story, even though the beloved may be imaginary, or a cat.
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The Lady: a fluty voice, sensible shoes, a melancholy sense of living by rules few still remember.
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My self-absorption warms me yours boils me.
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Think carefully before asking for justice. Mercy might be safer.
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Mind and body obstruct one another's pleasures.
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Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.
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Idleness makes people feeble and peevish. Work makes them stalwart and prone to anger.
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The truth usually has a slightly ugly look.
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At sixty, I would like to give my future back its vistas of uncertainty.
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Necessity makes heroes of us all.
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Undecidability is a useful category even in dealing with restaurant menus.
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Everyone makes sexy sounds relatively few, sexy sights.
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