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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Maybe I'm completely different from everyone else. There are a lot of girls who can't wait to get married and plan their wedding a long time in advance. I'm not like that. I do want to start a family at some point, but I don't know when.
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I recall the sudden arpeggios of laughter lilting across the tender, springtime grass - gay-welling, far-floating, fluent, spontaneous, a bell-like feminine fluting, then suppressed; as though snuffed swiftly and irrevocably beneath the quiet solemnity of the vespered air now vibrant with somber chapel bells.
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Whenever I catch a chunk of an Adam Sandler comedy on cable, it looks as badly shot and goofily tossed off as a Jerry Lewis gag reel once he hit the late downslide with 'Hardly Working' and 'Cracking Up.'
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As though there were a tie And obligation to posterity. We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse: What has posterity done for us. That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?
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What I tend to get from America is very enthusiastic letters and e-mail from librarians and schoolteachers, the gatekeepers, though I hesitate to use that word. I've never been a huge seller.
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So long as man resists a situation, he will have it with him.
