Arthur Ransome Quotes
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Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the middle of a table. This sort of shopping bag denotes prices that will start chipping into your children's college education fund. Avoid it.
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From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
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I care not to debate which came first, Islamism or anti-Muslim bigotry; suffice to say that both feed into each other symbiotically.
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Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
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I'm somebody who can laugh even at myself. That happens now and again, when I've made a mess of really simple things.
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The Tax Division is committed to prosecuting accountants who assist their clients in fraudulent tax schemes.
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Maybe since I was 35 years old it was time to go upstairs.
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Given my district, it would not have been right to put together a 99-song playlist and not include Barbra Streisand. She has appeal across several demographics of the district.
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In politics, guts is all.
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The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
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It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell under somebody's supervision and surveillance.
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We were too young to know better, and none of us were very aggressive people. It would have helped a lot if just one of us had been aggressive enough to say no.
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Olympian bards who sung Divine Ideas below, Which always find us young, And always keep us so.
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The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.
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If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?
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Bigotry and science can have no communication with each other, for science begins where bigotry and absolute certainty end. The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof. Let us never forget that tyranny most often springs from a fanatical faith in the absoluteness of one’s beliefs.
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No nation was ever so virtuous as each believes itself, and none was ever so wicked as each believes the other.
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Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control.
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I've been pretty good at reading people. If you rockin' with me cause you're just a solid individual, then we're rockin'. But if you got a motive or something, I am going to probably see right through that.
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Theirs is the present who can praise the past.
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Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.
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When I was in high school, my uncle, who went to the races quite a bit, got me interested. Then when I went to college at Southern Illinois University, just a few hours from Louisville, we used to go to the Kentucky Derby, and I got to see Secretariat and Riva Ridge win.
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A pigeon a day keeps the natives away
