John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
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There's monsters in all of us, but there's also vulnerability.
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I love what I do.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.
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Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
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In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with what is presumably the primary purpose of higher education: academics.
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On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12.
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If I were Osama, and the United States government were actually looking for me, I'd be clean-shaven by now, crewcutted, wearing jeans and a ZZ Top T-shirt, and living in a nice little house in Lincoln, Nebraska.
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'Never confuse sitting on your side with being on your side.'
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Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.
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When you have enough money the law is a reed that will always bend your way.
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Gassoon, for all his lore, subscribed to a common fallacy: he assumed that all those whom he encountered appraised him in the same terms as he did himself.
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Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice and they are also the most protected.
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The Mandelbrot set covers a small space yet carries a large number of different implications. Is it a fitting epitaph? Absolutely.
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We deemed the secret lost, the spirit gone, Which spake in Greek simplicity of thought, And in the forms of gods and heroes wrought Eternal beauty from the sculptured stone - A higher charm than modern culture won, With all the wealth of metaphysic lore, Gifted to analyze, dissect explore.
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Titles are marks of honest men, and wise;The fool or knave that wears a title lies.
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Metaphysicians and politicians may dispute forever, but they will never find any other moral principle or foundation of rule or obedience, than the consent of governors and governed.
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One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
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The calmer and more well-ordered my desktop is, the more I can convince myself I'm on top of things.
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Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.
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We should not allow the fundamentalists and the bigots to take over and speak for the great faiths any more than we should let them take over and speak for the great nation.
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Physically, we get older and then we die. Yet spiritually, whether we go backward or forward is a matter not of the body but of consciousness. When we think about age differently, then our experience of it changes. We can be physically older but emotionally and psychologically younger. Some of us were in a state of decay in our 20s and are in a state of re-birth in our 60s or 70s. King Solomon, who supposedly was the wisest of all men, described his youth as his winter and his advanced years as his summer. We can be older than we used to be yet feel much younger than we are.
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I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.
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Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves.
