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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
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Sometimes Yes is rhetoric enough.
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Sexual attraction makes the strangest bedfellows of all.
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Wealth makes the laws that poverty must obey.
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Literature gives us a memory of lives we did not lead.
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The neuroses parody the virtues.
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I resist change even as I call for it.
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My struggles with myself seldom reach aerobic level.
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Many pains are imaginary, but all joys are real.
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Children must be protected not because they are innocent but because they are powerless.
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Nonsense is socially OK, but not stupidity.
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You know you're in love when you stop comparing.
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Attachments and bereavements are inseparable.
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The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.
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Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.
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Paradox implies that stating a contradiction disposes of it.
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If there is no harm in asking, why guilt and fear when we do so?
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Intelligence in isolation turns to aimless marauding.
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The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.
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Generosity knows how to count, but refrains.
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Change is upsetting. Repetition is tedious. Three cheers for variation!
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