John Lancaster Spalding Quotes
A great man, who lives intimately with his admirers, with difficulty escapes being made ridiculous.
John Lancaster Spalding
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We who curate our Twitter feeds and Facebook walls understand that at least part of what we're doing publicly, 'like'-ing what we like, is trying to separate ourselves from the herd.
Garth Risk Hallberg
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
Dag Hammarskjold
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The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
Ada Louise Huxtable
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I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.
Victoria Pratt
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You always care about your teammates, and you care about the game.
Larry Brown
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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That future depends on the values of self-government, our sense of duty, loyalty, self-confidence and regard for the common good. We are a diverse country, and getting more diverse. And these virtues are what keep this great country together.
Jeff Miller
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I founded io9 back in 2008, and I watched it journey from the farthest reaches of space to its current home under this atmosphere bubble on Ceres.
Annalee Newitz
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The danger is not so much in the economic structure of a society but in its intellectual structure.
Philip Kaufman
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Creative writing teachers should be purged until every last instructor who has uttered the words 'Write what you know' is confined to a labor camp. Please, talented scribblers, write what you don't. The blind guy with the funny little harp who composed The Iliad, how much combat do you think he saw?
P. J. O'Rourke
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A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.
Harry Browne
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A great man, who lives intimately with his admirers, with difficulty escapes being made ridiculous.
John Lancaster Spalding
