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We said we would leave no stone unturned to get to Germany and now we are applying the same philosophy towards our tournament preparations.

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• It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except the American Negro. He lays down and says, 'Beat me, daddy.'

  

  Malcolm X
  • Life
  • American
  • Universe

• Weight used to be an issue. I was always fat as a child. And everyone used to tell me, 'You've got such a pretty face; why don't you lose some weight?' Over the years I've realised that my body is a certain type, and I have learned to accept it.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Why
  • Pretty
  • Body

• This bill is the legislative equivalent of crack. It yields a short-term high but does long-term damage to the system and it's expensive to boot.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Long
  • High
  • Expensive

• First, we will focus on the privatization of small and medium sized enterprises, followed by the medium size industry and then we will move on to the heavy industry.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • Small
  • Focus
  • Size

• I love the Middle East. My earliest childhood memories are of Jerusalem. I love the colors and smells and cadence of Arabic spoken in the streets of Cairo or Beirut. I also love the modernity and verve of Tel Aviv.

  

  Kai Bird
  • Childhood
  • Memories
  • Spoken

• I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Age
  • Never
  • Young

• I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.

  

  Adam Oates
  • School
  • High
  • Hockey

• Simply put, when women do well, everybody does better.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Women
  • Better
  • Well

• We all want to be special, to stand out; there's nothing wrong with this. The irony is that every human being is special to start with, because we're unique to start with. But we then go through some sort of boot camp from the age of zero to about 18 where we learn everything we can about how not to be unique.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Age
  • Unique
  • Start

• Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Women
  • Love
  • For Him

• I'm not religious, but wrong or right, that's me.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Me
  • Religious
  • Right

• I attended Amherst College from 1951 to 1955. The first two years were a revelation. There were innumerable exchanges with brilliant classmates, among them the playwright Ralph Allen, the classics scholar Robert Fagles, and the composer Michael Sahl.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • College
  • First
  • Classmates

• Allen was like a prophet of the 1960s.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Prophet
  • Allen

• You should study the Peerage, Gerald. It is the one book a young man about town should know thoroughly, and it is the best thing in fiction the English have ever done.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Book
  • Man
  • Know

• I've never changed my life since I was 4 and went to the YMCA with a gym bag. I still have that philosophy. In fact, I still have that gym bag.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Life
  • Philosophy
  • My Life

• Philosophy was once considered science.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Science
  • Philosophy
  • Once

• We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and as carefully guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous.

  

  William James
  • Science
  • Literature
  • Philosophy

• The entire routine of our memorized acquisitions, for example, is a consequence of nothing but the Law of Contiguity. The words of a poem, the formulas of trigonometry, the facts of history, the properties of material things, are all known to us as definite systems or groups of objects which cohere in an order fixed by innumerable iterations, and of which any one part reminds us of the others.

  

  William James
  • Literature
  • Philosophy
  • Property

• Every one of these claims embodies a metaphysical assumption, and science, since its very method presupposes them, could not possibly defend them without arguing in a circle. Their defense is instead a task for metaphysics, and for philosophy more generally; and scientism is shown thereby to be incoherent.

  

  Edward Feser
  • Science
  • Philosophy
  • Assumption

• We said we would leave no stone unturned to get to Germany and now we are applying the same philosophy towards our tournament preparations.

  

  John O'Neill
  • Philosophy
  • Tournament
  • Preparations