John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
If thy words are wise, they will not seem so to the foolish: if they are deep the shallow will not appreciate them. Think not highly of thyself, then, when thou art praised by many.

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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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I think if we understand better the impact of war on women and children, we might be more careful about the wars we start.
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If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
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One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
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A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.
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I am a just man.
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Small aim is a crime.
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Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
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I never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.
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A lasting two-state solution requires two credible partners, and not just one side - Israel - taking superficial steps simply to placate world opinion.
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Both my parents are creative. My dad did act when he was younger, but they're both very creative.
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Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.
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I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.
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My goal in creating Geek & Sundry was to create a community based around web video, and we've accomplished that, especially on our budget.
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I stay excited 'cause for me, this is something I love to do. I'm like Coca Cola with it. I been here for a long time, I just gotta keep it nice and stay up to date and also give them that quality taste that they been looking for. It's nothing to me. When you built for it, you born for it, you do it cuz you wanna do it, not cuz you have to.
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We won't stop until the first Saudi license is issued to a woman.
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My life is exactly the way it needs to be.
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If we could have seen through the televisions, we would probably have seen many a child grow up.
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We needed time off from each other after our last tour because there was a lot of personal stuff we had to take care of. Eddie needed hip replacement surgery. Al needed his back worked on. And I was going to have a baby.
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Success is the most convincing talker in the world.
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We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.
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A book, once it is printed and published, becomes individual. It is by its publication as decisively severed from its author as in parturition a child is cut off from its parent. The book 'means' thereafter, perforce, - both grammatically and actually, - whatever meaning this or that reader gets out of it.
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Feng shui is really important to me.
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If thy words are wise, they will not seem so to the foolish: if they are deep the shallow will not appreciate them. Think not highly of thyself, then, when thou art praised by many.