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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'Jerry had an expensive public school education, so he doesn’t recognize Latin when he hears it,' said Joanna
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Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by.
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The two of us with a very strong, peaceful expression, hand in hand, on the edge within a semicircle sea, lit be Bengal fire, water-tower, mountains, lightning and moon.
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There's something about the darkness that I find unavoidably intoxicating. The knowledge that other people are sleeping and, therefore, unavailable to ruin my solitude, makes me more peaceful than I am during the day.
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I love the solitude of being on a plane and finally getting to read an entire book and being left alone.
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Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves.
