Raymond Floyd Quotes
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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Being mean just for being mean's sake isn't funny.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it.
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The whole idea is whatever you do, have fun with it; try to make sure that it's quality and something you don't mind putting your name on.
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There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.
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There's no such thing as easy, but it's easier when a script is good.
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The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.
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Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
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The great seats of power tend to be wide and open, not vertical and soaring. Red Square, Tiananmen Square, the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin - all massive but with large open spaces that project an image of might.
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My criticism is too severe sometimes and that is not good. But why don't you start doing your work unless your leader flies into a rage? It is not that you cannot do it but that you don't want to do it.
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Sometimes if you expose your vulnerability, someone else will feel comforted. It's like we're all in this boat together.
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It's good to have certain restrictions sometimes, but it's definitely more fun to play really loud, with distortion.
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We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file-sharing networks.
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veritas norma sui et falsi est
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I certainly find being the recipient at this celebratory dinner more pleasurable and rewarding than chicken-pox, having now in my life experienced both. But the small girl was not entirely wrong. Writing is indeed, some kind of affliction in its demands as the most solitary and introspective of occupations.
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This combat between proletariat and plutocracy is, after all, itself a civil war. Two inferiorities struggle for the privilege of polluting the world.
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Don't worry about the pressure or the responsibility. Just live in it, have fun, and when everything seems to be going right, just stay humble and remember your family.
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I think the worst professional advice I received was this kind of unspoken message of "sit back and wait your turn," or "sit back and wait and let other people do things."
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Since 'Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights' came out, I've done a fair amount of public speaking, and the two statistics that always make the audience sit up are that nearly one in three women will have had at least one abortion by menopause and 61 percent of women who have abortions are already mothers.
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There's a big difference between falling in love and being in love. There's a big difference between infatuation and falling in love.
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Do not entertain the notion that you ought to advance in your prayer. If you do, you will only find you have put on the brake instead of the acceleration. All real progress in spiritual things comes gently, imperceptibly, and is the work of God. Our crude efforts spoil it. Know yourself for the childish, limited and dependent soul you are. Remember that the only growth which matters happens without our knowledge and that trying to stretch ourselves is both dangerous and silly. Think of the Infinite Goodness, never of your own state.
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They call it golf because all the other four letter words were taken.
