Aldo Leopold Quotes
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The men who founded and governed Massachusetts and Connecticut took themselves so seriously that they kept track of everything they did for the benefit of posterity and hoarded their papers so carefully that the whole history of the United States, recounted mainly by their descendants, has often appeared to be the history of New England writ large.
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For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.
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Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.
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My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.
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My goal in politics from the very beginning has been, and will be, the goal of giving Ukraine a chance to finally secure a firm footing in the world as a competitive, independent and real European state.
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I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I want to do good for Israel. My philosophy is let's do good stuff, and let's see what happens. And que sera, sera.
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Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.
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When a guy can make fun of you, thats attractive. Who knew that teasing could have so much power over women!
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My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'
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Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.
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I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.
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Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Brooklyn was a dream. All the things that happened there just couldn't happen. It was all dream stuff. Or was it all real and true and was it that she, Francie, was the dreamer?
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I don't write for publishers, certainly not for critics, and not for readers, But I am delighted that so many people have found my books enjoyable and want to continue to read them.
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The great Emathian conqueror bid spareThe house of Pindarus, when temple and towerWent to the ground.
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I was taught as a young person that the far political right and the far political left aren't located on a spectrum but on a circle, where they inevitably meet in their extremity.
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Man brings all things to the test of himself, and this is notably true of lightning.
