Florence Scovel Shinn Quotes
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Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smokey Joe Wood.
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When you have that connection to say, 'I'm going to play for something bigger than myself,' man, you have a chance to do something good.
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The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
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Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
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The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.
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Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
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The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.
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It took a long while for me to even put out a record because there were so many options of how to do a song, and in some respects, I'm never totally happy with the outcome.
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I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It has long been obvious - even to the deeply religious - that religious fanaticism is an extremely dangerous deranger of otherwise sane and goodhearted people.
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To deal with local pollution, China has put on the agenda the capping of coal, which has long been a sensitive issue.
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Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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When I want a long ball, I spin my hips faster.
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I have matured with the realization that I can live without a man!
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I was not in 'Iron Man 2,' but I take a daily iron supplement.
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Being a humorist is not a voluntary thing. You can tell this because in a situation where saying a funny thing will cause a lot of trouble, a humorist will still say the funny thing. No matter how inappropriate.
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A curious mind is the most important attribute any man or woman can possess.
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The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.
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Scientists tend to resist interdisciplinary inquiries into their own territory. In many instances, such parochialism is founded on the fear that intrusion from other disciplines would compete unfairly for limited financial resources and thus diminish their own opportunity for research.
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Most of the time I'm thinking, I'm glad that scene was improvised.
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I think, pretty much like everyone around my age, I grew up playing those classic video games. I wouldn't say I was addicted to them, but I definitely liked them.
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When something isn't done, you want to do something about it.
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Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states.
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So long as man resists a situation, he will have it with him.
