Edward Graham Paley Quotes
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Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines the purpose and accounts for the immense wealth of American sports. It is the ceremony of innocence that the fans pay to see - not the game or the match or the bout, but the ritual portrayal of a world in which time stops and all hope remains plausible, in which everybody present can recover the blameless expectations of a child, where the forces of light always triumph over the powers of darkness.
Lewis H. Lapham
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However, if I am confirmed to this position my first priority will be to maintain continuity with the policies and policy strategies established during the Greenspan years.
Ben Bernanke
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It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it.
Claudette Colbert
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Truly, as the ancients taught us, there is nothing under the moon, however fine, that is not subject to corruption.
C.J. Sansom
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Greater dooms win greater destinies.
Heraclitus
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I wrote a book, and I just love it when people come up to me and say, 'I read your book and loved it.
Michelle Phillips
The Mamas & The Papas
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We live surrounded by critics, so let them talk, let them criticize me as much as they want. Ultimately, that makes me a better player.
Pablo Sandoval
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The reward for being a good problem solver is to be heaped with more and more difficult problems to solve
R. Buckminster Fuller
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Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
Thomas Carlyle
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What is proposed herein is that we have no right, nor any ethical justification, for clearing land or using wilderness while we tread over lawns, create erosion, and use land inefficiently. Our responsibility is to put our house in order. Should we do so, there will never be any need to destroy wilderness.
Bill Mollison
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The last thing I would accuse a cat of is innocence.
Edward Graham Paley
