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Listen to what people say about themselves they will tell you everything you need to know.

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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
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I know that I am what I am. But I am not sure what I am.
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Like other high subjects, the Law gives no ground to common sense.
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Beauty compels us reason merely cajoles.
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Babies and the old are permitted self-absorption. In between, it provokes resentment.
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We do justice coldly, injustice hotly.
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When I get the point, I often don't know what to do with it.
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Heroes are born to be troublemakers.
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Without the blessing of cowardice, the world would long since have been torn to bits.
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Opportunity often goes begging. Luck, never.
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Always late: thus I make you the prisoner of my freedom.
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The hero used to be the one in white. Now he is harder to spot.
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Wisdom is founded on memory happiness on forgetfulness.
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Repetition comforts me for a time, then closes in.
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Eccentricity: strength of character doubling back on itself.
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Boredom strives to detach, but finds itself stuck.
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In an aphorism, aptness counts for more than truth.
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A real idea keeps changing and appears in many places.
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Most people see no reason to stop arguing just because an issue has been decided.
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