William Cobbett Quotes
Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Canada are the horns, the head, the neck, the shins, and the hoof of the ox, and the United States are the ribs, the sirloin, the kidneys, and the rest of the body.
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I'm kind of a perfectionist, and it gets in the way with my putting sometimes. Golf is a messed-up game. When you feel you've figured it out is when you're going to struggle.
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Being spontaneous is a blessing.
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I learned that despite having years and years of experience in math and computer science and so on, I didn't really know how to code until I formed a company.
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No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.
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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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We're pretty good at putting bunts down and really good at hitting. I know as a pitcher, when you face a pitcher you know can hit, that's not fun. I think taking pride in that, and being able to hit helps your own cause.
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It is possible to tolerate anything as long as it only affects you. But the method of collective punishment is bigger than that.
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Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.
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Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
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I don't want to see blood spewing out but I don't mind it in controlled environment. Does it make me squeamish? No.
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Today in Ukraine, many people struggle to survive, older ones often see the breakdown of the Soviet system as a loss of stability and security for average people, and therefore a certain hostility to quickly acquired wealth is from their point of view quite understandable at the first look.
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I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.
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No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.
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I am not a dumb animal to be browbeaten, cowed, lashed, coerced or goaded into anything I do not think is right.
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Unfortunately, I'm very accident-prone.
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I do love getting dressed up, but sometimes it's glam and edgy mixed together.
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The Taliban is the Muslim version of the Salem witch trials.
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The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.
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Drugs, were a symptom - they weren't the cause of anything.
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If you're going climbing with young people, you get very, very used to seeing your climbing partner as a tiny little dot.
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I have an existential crisis every time I walk into a bookshop, knowing that I'm not going to read all the books before I die.
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From whence have we come,” he asked, “and how far have we fallen?
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Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Canada are the horns, the head, the neck, the shins, and the hoof of the ox, and the United States are the ribs, the sirloin, the kidneys, and the rest of the body.
