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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
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Small successes are still successes great failures are still failures.
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Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.
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In describing someone's character, I reveal my own.
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Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.
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The time I kill is killing me.
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Nature knows no difference between weeds and flowers.
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To a suicide: You just poisoned the wrong person.
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Life is what it makes you.
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Hope, and hopelessness, persist despite the facts.
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Prudence does not save us, but shows us pictures of our destroyers.
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The aftermath of joy is not usually more joy.
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Travelling, I worry about luggage, prices, and strange food. At home, I am free to broaden my mind by thinking about the higher things.
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True wit has a grave intention.
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