John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
To how much lying, extravagance, hypocrisy and servilism does not the fear of ridicule lead? Human respect makes us cowards and slaves. It may deter from evil, but much oftener it drives to baseness. 'We are too much afraid,' said Cato, 'of death, exile and poverty.'
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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I don't know what I'm meant to do. I'm not important, am I? I'm not doing anything that makes a difference.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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I feel like God gave me the ability to play a game. I try to take it very seriously. I realize it's just a game.
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Some guys play with their heads. That's okay. You've got to be smart to be number one in any business. But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body.
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I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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I think Mickey Gall's going to be really good.
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Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.
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People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
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Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and getting ready for the game.
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I loved France, although I initially thought they were stubborn for always speaking French.
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America is a meritocracy.
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AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s.
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Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.
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I'm a beer man. I tried to drink whiskey and Scotch, but I don't get it. It smells like a girl who didn't shower and just splashed a lot of perfume on.
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It is therefore correct to say that the senses do not err - not because they always judge rightly, but because they do not judge at all.
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Sometimes there's one person in the audience laughing hysterically, and it's so much fun. You end up playing the entire play to them.
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The biggest rap on me is that I don't find a Watergate every couple of years. Well, Watergate was unique. It's not something Carl Bernstein, I, or the Washington Post caused.
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At bottom, the battle has been waged on moral grounds. The country has debated whether a society for which the dignity of the individual is the supreme value can, without a fundamental inconsistency, follow the practice of deliberately putting one of its members to death.
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To how much lying, extravagance, hypocrisy and servilism does not the fear of ridicule lead? Human respect makes us cowards and slaves. It may deter from evil, but much oftener it drives to baseness. 'We are too much afraid,' said Cato, 'of death, exile and poverty.'
