Richard Petty Quotes
There is no doubt about precisely when folks began racing each other in automobiles. It was the day they built the second automobile.
Quotes to Explore
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My life has never been wonderful. Maybe when I was a child, but not after age 15.
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Poverty is the worst form of violence.
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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.
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As a child I wanted to be a professional athlete or lawyer.
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I have to throw off the burden and the pressure.
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I'm a big fan of the poet Mary Jo Salter, and although she doesn't need to be discovered at all - she's widely admired and anthologized and extremely accomplished - I wish she were a household name.
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One of the things that doesn't come up as much as it should, especially in literary fiction, is this idea of faith and God... I feel like those are things that should be wrestled with... because they are such an integral part of our community on every level.
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Major Clark is one of the most outstanding officers of his grade in the U.S. Army... an officer of impeccable character with a rare blend of personal qualities and professional attributes which uniquely qualify him as a soldier-scholar.
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I can think about what [Mahatma] Gandhi said or [Martin Luther] King said about violence begetting violence, and still be true to my job by asking myself the question whenever we're confronted with a situation where some may be arguing for military action: Will this actually result in America being safer, or the most lives being saved?
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And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place - even the butterfly. But humanity never gets beyond the caterpillar stage -it rots in the chrysalis, it never will have wings.It is anti-creation, like monkeys and baboons.
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No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.
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A dry soul is wisest and best.
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If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.
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But the truth is, I have no way of accounting for all of the factors involved in any given success, and whenever I learn more, I have to revise what I think. That’s not a weakness or a flaw. That’s reality.
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The fun is in always building something. After it's built, you play with it awhile and then you're through. You see, we never do the same thing twice around here. We're always opening up new doors.
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No society can possibly be built on a denial of individual freedom.
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Get rid at the outset of the idea that the airplane is only an air-going sort of automobile. It isn't. It may sound like one and smell like one, and it may have been interior decorated to look like one; but the difference is - it goes on wings.
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I have no intention of ever working with the Spice girls again.
