George Karl Quotes
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Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.
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People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
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Yes, I applied a lot of what I did in football to golf.
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I mean rappin' to me is easy, it's something you can do over a week.
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I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context.
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So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.
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For many years, Myanmar's leadership was largely shut out from the world of international diplomacy.
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I always have a book that I write during competition. I need it with me, just to read back and reflect and look forward. If I'm feeling anxious, it helps me.
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I can love a person in this life only insofar as he tries to advance in the praise and service of God our Lord; for the man who loves anything for itself and not for the sake of God, does not love God with his whole heart.
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Although there's a lot of focus on the Lib Dems, we need to keep our eyes on the far right of the Tories, who I suspect will become increasingly impatient in their appetite for tax cuts, deregulation and shrinking the state even further.
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A fragmented film such as 'Babel' gives the impression of 'edginess' but, in its form, tells us nothing we didn't already know.
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My personal view is always I'm in favour of anything that gives parliament a greater say. That's after all what we were elected for.
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Imagine if all those kings and dukes hadn't commissioned those crazy cathedrals, paintings and music... we'd still be living in sticks and mud. Because none of those things made any economic sense. Human beings' capacity to 'waste time' is a miracle - but that's exactly what art is for.
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It's time to declare a cease-fire in the education arms race. We have far more to gain from collaborating to solve our common problems than competing for higher rankings.
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Æschylus: High thoughts must have high language. (rewritten and embellished tr. Fitts 1955, p. 108)
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Clarice: proposing to Toni I'll be your lawyer if you'll be my accountant.
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Am I getting better at making choices? Well, I think I might be getting better at reading scripts.
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No dream is too big. No challenge is too great. Nothing we want for our future is beyond our reach.
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Life is hard, you know. If I can give someone on the radio three minutes to make them feel happier, that's a cool thing.
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You got to live for yourself, yourself and nobody else.
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Housman is one of my heroes and always has been. He was a detestable and miserable man. Arrogant, unspeakably lonely, cruel, and so on, but and absolutely marvellous minor poet, I think, and a great scholar.
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There were two views of how a polis was formed. The first was military: a scattered group of people came to live in one city behind a set of protective walls. The other was political: a group of people agreed to live under one authority, with or whithout the protection of a walled city. Synoikismos, or 'Living together', embraces both. Any political entity implies a population that recognizes a common authority, but the first 'city-states' were not always based on a city. Sparta makes the point. We think of Sparta as a city, but the Spartans were proud of the fact that they lived in villages without protective walls: their army was their wall and 'every man a brick.
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When your best player puts it on the line every day, the other guys can't cut corners
