John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
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On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12.
T. Boone Pickens
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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.
L. Neil Smith
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'Never confuse sitting on your side with being on your side.'
Ian Paisley
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Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.
Ramana Maharshi
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When you have enough money the law is a reed that will always bend your way.
Orson Scott Card
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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.
Jack Vance
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Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice and they are also the most protected.
Alan Dershowitz
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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.
Benoit Mandelbrot
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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.
Margaret Fuller
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Titles are marks of honest men, and wise;The fool or knave that wears a title lies.
Edward Young
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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.
John Adams
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'Jerry had an expensive public school education, so he doesn’t recognize Latin when he hears it,' said Joanna
Agatha Christie
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I'm a huge Neil Flynn fan.
Chord Overstreet
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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.
Marianne Williamson
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Solitude, I reflected, is the one deep necessity of the human spirit to which adequate recognition is never given in our codes. It is looked upon as a discipline or penance, but hardly ever as the indispensable, pleasant ingredient it is to ordinary life, and from this want of recognition come half our domestic troubles.
Freya Stark
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It is sweet to mingle tears with tears; Griefs, where they wound in solitude, Wound more deeply.
Seneca the Younger
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I showed the grown ups my masterpiece, andI asked them if my drawing scared them. They answered why be scared of a hat? My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves.
John Lancaster Spalding
