Joe Torre Quotes
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Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.
Zhang Zhidong -
We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.
Wendell Willkie -
President Bush's emergency declaration for the State of Texas is great news for the people and communities that have experienced the devastating wildfires firsthand. Already, communities have rallied to help neighbors in need.
Randy Neugebauer -
When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over.
Imre Kertesz -
I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.
Harold Ramis
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The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
J. Robert Oppenheimer -
Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish. All the people. It means that they can worship God in any way they feel right, and that includes Christians and Jews and voodoo doctors as well.
Dalton Trumbo -
I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them.
Frances Farmer -
Humor can inform and break down stigma, which is a huge issue in the military.
Garry Trudeau -
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
Gaston Bachelard -
Reducing caloric intake is the only proven method of extending life. If caloric intake is reduced to 20 percent below maintenance, you can extend your lifespan considerably.
S. Jay Olshansky
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A few honest men are better than numbers.
Oliver Cromwell -
Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose to organize their societies.
Adam Davidson -
I'm not a violent person.
Manute Bol -
A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.
Edna Ferber -
If we perform as a unit and if every single player gives it his very best, everything can happen.
Oliver Kahn -
People sometimes say it takes a long time to become a jazz fan, but for me it took about five seconds.
Pat Metheny
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Too often people view idealists as naive.
Jacqueline Novogratz -
From an early age, I understood the concept that, if you're not the star, then your job is to not pull attention away from the star.
Ansel Elgort -
I felt that a cappella was the improv world with music, where it's very serious, and there are groups and competition, and some people become famous, and there's a language we speak from one improviser to another.
Kay Cannon -
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Storm Jameson -
It just feels good to beat the world champs to be the world champs.
Joe Torre