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Pyrrhus said, 'If I should overcome the Romans in another fight, I were undone.'

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• Tiger Woods, Larry Bird, Wayne Gretzky, a pitcher just before a game, I would imagine they all have nervous energy. But as you perform, the nervous energy dissipates and you start to relax and you start to do what you do best.

  

  Randy Johnson
  • Game
  • Energy
  • Best

• In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Death
  • Terrorism
  • Sickness

• As anyone who is gay will confirm, being that way is not something you become, it is a set of emotional and physical responses that just are.

  

  Lance Loud
  • You
  • Emotional
  • Gay

• The story of Christian reformation, revival, and renaissance underscores that the darkest hour is often just before the dawn, so we should always be people of hope and prayer, not gloom and defeatism. God the Holy Spirit can turn the situation around in five minutes.

  

  Os Guinness
  • People
  • God
  • Hope

• Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Politics
  • Exist
  • Well

• I'm influenced by all types of music.

  

  Flo Rida
  • Music
  • Influenced
  • Types

• What people don't realize is that professionals are sensational because of the fundamentals. The sensationalism has taken over the professionalism.

  

  Barry Larkin
  • People
  • Taken
  • Realize

• If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.

  

  Larry David
  • Truth
  • Feeling
  • You

• Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Vision
  • Only
  • Surrealism

• There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Peace
  • Peaceful
  • Privacy

• I like radio and live performing stuff. I don't like the television stuff as much.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Live
  • Television
  • Radio

• What I really learned in the army was how to be a pacifist.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Army
  • How
  • Pacifist

• India has the capability to create a fairly extensive defence manufacturing capability in many areas, and as a country and as an industry, we have matured in terms of technology and capability to make this happen.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Country
  • Technology
  • India

• My friend told me later he got the chicken pox. I told him I caught politics and never got over it.

  

  Galveston Giant
  • Friend
  • Politics
  • Caught

• I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Society
  • Freedom
  • Price

• If Gretzky was velvet, Ovechkin is electricity.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Electricity
  • Velvet
  • Gretzky

• I pass, at length, to the third and perfectly absolute dominion, which we call democracy.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Democracy

• It made me wonder if perhaps our ancestors' crimes were not in fact far more terrible than they claimed. After all, the only histories we possessed told their version of what happened, and in their accounts they were completely innocent.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Wonder
  • Innocent

• Like when Jay Leno made jokes about Koreans eating dog, but the hidden messages, our invisibility, is more harmful to us than any of those fools on 'board'.

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Dog

• Right now my mind is on the people who stole our instruments, and, specifically, the person with my guitar, which will no doubt end its days having Green Day songs worked out on it. A better fate was deserved - and while the reverence given to guitars annoys me, I shall miss it.

  

  Jonny Greenwood Radiohead
  • People
  • Mind
  • Doubt

• Three of my uncles served in the Armed Forces.

  

  Eric Reid
  • Uncles
  • Armed Forces

• Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Life
  • American
  • Fear

• We are growing both in the U.S. and in India, and all our business plans are made accordingly. So we are expanding both in U.S. and in India.

  

  John L. Flannery
  • Business
  • Growing

• Pyrrhus said, 'If I should overcome the Romans in another fight, I were undone.'

  

  Plutarch