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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
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Don't stare into a mirror when you are trying to solve a problem.
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In the present age, a man with harmonious ideas is regarded as out of touch.
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Old and young disbelieve one another's truths.
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Opportunity often goes begging. Luck, never.
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Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.
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Mild brown eyes beckon me to the past, but memory provides no clue.
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My aspiration now is to get by luck what I could not get by merit.
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Weakness is a better teacher than strength. Weakness must learn to understand the obstacles that strength brushes aside.
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A moratorium on opportunities, please. I need to recover from the last one.
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Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.
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Rereading, we find a new book.
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Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.
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Work at first rescues us, then ravages us.
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Reading civilized the inner life.
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God makes the covenant, and observes it as He pleases.
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If I want my time wasted, I'll waste it myself.
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Wisdom has lost repute because it so often applies to a state of affairs that no longer exists.
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The mind scolds the heart, which makes excuses and goes its own way.
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Wealth makes the laws that poverty must obey.
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Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.
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