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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
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Our civilization is shifting from science and technology to rhetoric and litigation.
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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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Sometimes the given seems like something taken away.
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The meaning of today will not be clear until tomorrow.
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Money gives me more energy than all the Granola bars in the world.
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The ironies in the commonplace are my inspiration and delight.
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Those who follow where their genitals lead them often wind up in tedious company.
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A sure cure for boredom: fast until you are ravenous.
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The aphorism sometimes casts off cynicism and expresses strong feeling.
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As a child I was middle-aged and cautious compared to my impulsive father.
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Those who refuse to play second fiddle may wind up playing no fiddle at all.
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Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself.
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Telescopes and binoculars endanger the ever-distant sublime.
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When love ends, the beloved is no longer standing on a pedestal, but in a hole.
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The vices of youth now exceed my powers, but not my fancy.
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A theology whose god is a metaphor is wasting its time.
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One eventually has enough even of oneself.
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Beauty and virtue: the most kissable ass in the world is no guarantee of good intentions.
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My aspiration now is to get by luck what I could not get by merit.
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Victorian sorrow: the stars are winking in the sky, but not for us.
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