Quotes by Clifford Cohen

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“Give your ambition a name.”

“Emotion is the timbre of thought.”

“Recognize and beware of the snare.”

“Rare is not synonymous with valuable.”

“Do first what you dont want to do most.”

“Do first what you don’t want to do most.”

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“You can do anythingbut before you can do anything, you have to do something.”
— Clifford Cohen
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“Just because you say you will do something does not mean that you are also willing to do that thing. Ensuring that both things are true is especially important in the matter of either making or rec...”
— Clifford Cohen
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“Sometimes, if your opponent is determined to win the battle, let him win the wrong battle.”
— Clifford Cohen
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“Regarding war and peacethe seed of each is planted in the other.”
— Clifford Cohen
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“Regarding war and peacethe seeds of each are planted in the other.”
— Clifford Cohen
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“A psychologists job (if its done well) is to get you to seriously laugh at yourself.”
— Clifford Cohen
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“All too often, our elegant political theories amount to nothing more than ideology triumphing over common sense.”
— Clifford Cohen
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“We live in an age of equivocal competency: if you want, you can be a competent dictator, a competent self-promoter, a competent terrorist. Just because you can do something well does not mean you s...”
— Clifford Cohen
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“Why do the powerful always insist on having a back story to justify whatever they do? Why cant theyjust oncedo something for the simple reason that it is the right thing to do, in itself, for reaso...”
— Clifford Cohen
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“If you cant be brave in the face of adversity, at least be practical.”
— Clifford Cohen
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“Amazing how too much passion in one part of your life can destroy passion in other parts of your life.”
— Clifford Cohen
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“If someone tells you that theyre called blueberries because theyre berries and theyre bluebelieve them.”
— Clifford Cohen
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“Theres no arguing with a song that writes itself.”
— Clifford Cohen
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“Sex can be the result of love, but never the cause of it.”
— Clifford Cohen
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“We recognize authority based on whether we feel we could attain authority by the rules by which the authority was obtained.”
— Clifford Cohen
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“Cooler heads prevail while things spin completely out of control.”
— Clifford Cohen
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“Some people say I raised a good child. I like to think of it as my child raised a good parent.”
— Clifford Cohen
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“You have to know you dont know before you can know.”
— Clifford Cohen
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“It is more important to understand the book you are reading than to finish the book you are reading.”
— Clifford Cohen
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“Note from Alien cookbook: The more intelligent the human is, the better it tastes.”
— Clifford Cohen
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