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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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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I love looking at people who have achieved a lot - even Kim Kardashian, who has made a brand out of being a reality TV star; I applaud that.
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I think there is a demand. The demand is for a radical economic and political restructuring of the world. And most people would say that's impossible. And it may or may not be achieved, but I think that's less important than articulating what a just and fair world can be.
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Our nation and those of the developed world must offer our own resistance to despot leaders who seek to commit murder on the basis of religion or race.
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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.
