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.
Walter Johnson
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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.
Dan Quinn
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The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
Barbara Walters
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Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.
G. Willow Wilson
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Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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.
Karl Jaspers
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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.
Rain Phoenix
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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.
Daniel Dennett
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Orson Welles
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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.
Ma Jun
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Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
Namie Amuro
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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.
H. L. Mencken
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When I want a long ball, I spin my hips faster.
Jack Nicklaus
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I have matured with the realization that I can live without a man!
Lana Turner
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I was not in 'Iron Man 2,' but I take a daily iron supplement.
Dana Carvey
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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.
P. J. O'Rourke
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A curious mind is the most important attribute any man or woman can possess.
M. J. Rose
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The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Oscar Wilde
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Man is a biped without feathers.
Plato
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NO!” The scream was the more terrible because he had never expected or dreamed that Professor McGonagall could make such a sound.
Joanne Rowling
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In the Trump language, words change their meaning day by day depending on his own political needs.
E. J. Dionne
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But I think the image that's thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players who want to imitate hip-hop stars. And the NBA is taking advantage of the situation.
Oscar Robertson
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So long as man resists a situation, he will have it with him.
Florence Scovel Shinn