Alexander Chase
Journalist
Alexander Chase was an American journalist and essayist. He wrote social and political commentary and is often cited in collections of modern quotations.
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Quotes by Alexander Chase
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Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.
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The movie actor, like the sacred king of primitive tribes, is a god in captivity.
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The banalities of a great man pass for wit.
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To remain young one must change. The perpetual campus hero is not a young man but an old boy.
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The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for to them everything is possible.
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In a democracy the general good is furthered only when the special interests of competing minorities accidentally coincide-or cancel each other out.
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All generalizations are false, including this one.
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Social work is a band-aid on the festering wounds of society.
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Life is fleeting-and therefore endurable.
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Memory is the thing you forget with.
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Music has charms to soothe a savage breast-but not the unmusical one.
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Gods are born and die, but the atom endures.
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The obstinacy of human beings is exceeded only by the obstinacy of inanimate objects.
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The rich man may never get into heaven, but the pauper is already serving his term in hell.
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More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion.
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A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed.
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Without the spice of guilt, sin cannot be fully savored.
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To attempt suicide is a criminal offense. Any man who, of his own will, tries to escape the treadmill to which the rest of us feel chained incites our envy, and therefore our fury. We do not suffer him to go unpunished.
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When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it-whether it be a factory or a government.
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To the average cigarette smoker the world is his ashtray.
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