Wyatt Earp Quotes
The most important lesson I learned...was that the winner of a gunplay usually was the one who took his time. The second was that, if I hoped to live on the frontier, I would shun flashy trick-shooting--grandstand play--as I would poison...In all my life as a frontier peace officer, I did not know a really proficient gunfighter who had anything but contempt for the gun-fanner, or the man who literally shot from the hip.
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When I was five I had violin lessons.
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Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.
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History provides a sense of where we've been and lessons that can be taken forward.
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Women don't want to win, they want a winner.
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Mithridates, he died old. Housman's passage is based on the belief of the ancients that Mithridates the Great [c. 135-63 B.C.] had so saturated his body with poisons that none could injure him. When captured by the Romans he tried in vain to poison himself, then ordered a Gallic mercenary to kill him.
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When she was 4 1/2, she asked for three straight months if she could take skating lessons, ... I didn't know where that came from because I had never skated and none of her friends had either.
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Anti-alcoholics are unfortunates in the grip of water, that terrible poison, so corrosive that out of all substances it has been chosen for washing and scouring, and a drop of water added to a clear liquid like Absinthe, muddles it.
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It's a question of whether they have learned any lessons at all.
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The vacuum created by a failure to communicate will quickly be filled with rumor, misrepresentations, drivel, and poison.
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There are many lessons to learn. Naming just one is next to impossible. However, learning to love and be loved is a good starting point. It will encompass much.
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Young people nowadays love luxury; they have bad manners and contempt for authority. They show disrespect for old people... contradict their parents, talk constantly in front of company, gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers.
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Malice drinketh up the greater part of its own poison.
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A tyranny based on ... deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself.
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Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
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There are 1,000 lessons in defeat. But only one in victory.
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Retaliation is counter-poison and poison breeds more poison. The nectar of Love alone can destroy the poison of hate.
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Hide not thy poison with such sugar'd words
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I never had any lessons. When I first started playing I used to read music. I was very interested in music. But when I started playing in groups I did a silly thing and dropped it. It's great if you can write things down.
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That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.
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Oh! To be a butterfly Still, upon a flower, Winking with its painted wings, Happy in the hour.
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I'm usually pretty open about what's going on with me.
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And it's as you get older that you realize that the things that make you strange are the things that make you who you are. And that's a lovely place to get to.
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The most important lesson I learned...was that the winner of a gunplay usually was the one who took his time. The second was that, if I hoped to live on the frontier, I would shun flashy trick-shooting--grandstand play--as I would poison...In all my life as a frontier peace officer, I did not know a really proficient gunfighter who had anything but contempt for the gun-fanner, or the man who literally shot from the hip.
