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Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smokey Joe Wood.
Walter Johnson -
The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington – wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.
Malcolm X -
Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
Isaac Bashevis Singer -
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
Samuel Johnson -
Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
I vowed I would do everything I could to stop the Isle of Man counting towards the world championship. And it was stopped, so they love me in the Isle of Man.
Barry Sheene
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The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years.
Malcolm X -
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.
Omar N. Bradley -
There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
Owen Feltham -
One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
Ogden Nash -
Being in this fine mood, I spoke to a little boy, whom I saw playing alone in the road, asking him what he was going to be when he grew up. Of course I expected to hear him say a sailor, a soldier, a hunter, or something else that seems heroic to childhood, and I was very much surprised when he answered innocently, 'A man.'
W. H. Davies
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Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
A. A. Milne -
A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee.
Fletcher Knebel -
I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it's all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad.
Dakota Fanning -
He was a man, he always performed his promises.
Zebulon Pike -
I'm a religious man. I pray for Milky Way.
Forrest Mars, Jr. -
The fact is, everything we want or yearn for is won through other people. No man on an island is happy; he is merely existing. The joyous life is the one filled with rich relationships.
Vernon Howard
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One of the smartest things you can do on 'Chopped' is to take one of those ingredients and make a pickle out of it, because almost every dish benefits from that. I'm feeling like those intuitions are becoming more natural.
Ted Allen -
How do we deal with not just the acts of violence, but the extremist ideology that lies behind them? Because though the numbers of fanatics that go and join and kill for a group like ISIS are measured in tens of thousands, those that support the wider ideology, I'm afraid, you measure in tens of millions or more.
Tony Blair -
Getting a tattoo would probably make me cry.
Calvin Trillin -
My mom was the poster girl for the Marines. So she was in the poster saying, "I want you." My parents were both Marines.
Jon Bon Jovi -
A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.
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