Red Smith (Walter Wellesley Smith) Quotes
Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved.
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Things are useless without practice.
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Religion and politics are supposed to be separate.
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To the average professed Christian today, living so far below normal, New Testament Christianity would be a shock.
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If I had kids, I don't think I would recommend they pursue a career in music.
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Ronald Reagan's long journey has finally drawn to a close, ... optimism and ... Western can-do spirit.
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Aig [F.-M. Sir Douglas Haig] 'e don't say much; 'e don't, so to say, say nothin'; but what 'e don't say don't mean nothin', not 'arf. But when 'e do say something--my Gawd!
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I have nothing to lose by standing up and following my beliefs. So I'll go to jail, so what? We have been in jail for years.
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Pray the gods do not envy your happiness!
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Do every day or two something for no other reason than its difficulty.
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Most of these people will never make the headlines and their names will not appear in Who's Who. Yet when years have rolled past and when the blazing light of truth is focused on this marvelous age in which we live - men and women will know and children will be taught that we have a finer land, a better people, a more noble civilization - because these humble children of God were willing to suffer for righteousness' sake.
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Nothing is more seductive for a man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.
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Assassination's the fastest way.
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No one worries about genre when they're dancing. They're not asking themselves, 'Is this song a dubstep song?'
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Sex is not only the basis of life, it is the reason for life.
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I was a kid, and I was very excited to experience this whole new world. And everything was fun, everything from, oh, wow, we get bananas - I'd only seen them in picture books, you know - to, like, the diversity of the neighborhood and to explore Judaism for the first time. It was really hushed in the Soviet Union.
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Ninety feet between the bases is the nearest thing to perfection that man has yet achieved.
