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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
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The magic of procedure: do this after that and thus before so then your wish will be granted.
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Think carefully before asking for justice. Mercy might be safer.
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Every seeming equality conceals a hierarchy.
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Hatred of the mother is familiar, but the mother's hatred still comes as a surprise.
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If I could do my life over, I would try to cleanse at least my pleasures of self-pity.
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Always late: thus I make you the prisoner of my freedom.
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When understanding would be too difficult, I become trusting.
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Love Songs Now: Fewer broken hearts, more sexual misery.
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Curiosity engenders both science and scandal.
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If your nose is up in the air, you cannot see where you are going.
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Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.
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Repetition comforts me for a time, then closes in.
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I like what I do for a living. I also like NOT doing it--perhaps even more.
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In the labyrinth of a difficult text, we find unmarked forks in the path, detours, blind alleys, loops that deliver us back to our point of entry, and finally the monster who whispers an unintelligible truth in our ears.
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Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables.
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Folly always knows the answer.
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I must like my profession, since I can hardly distinguish myself from it.
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Reversing a proposition rearranges its terms, but still keeps out new terms.
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The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.
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We take refuge in illness and then are trapped there.
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