Cy Young Quotes
One of the fellows called me 'Cyclone' but finally shortened it to 'Cy' and its been that ever since.
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A 'philosophical dictionary' is not a dictionary of philosophy that you use to look up obscure thinkers or recondite terms. It is a collection of brief and pithy essays on diverse topics, informed by one vision, and usually arranged in alphabetical order.
Ian Hacking
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Every single job is a challenge. You are walking into a new set, a new character, creating a world and trying to get comfortable to do your best work.
Felicia Day
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I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.
Victor Cruz
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The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.
Patricia Schroeder
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Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.
Edmund Phelps
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The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?
J. B. Priestley
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Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
Mahatma Gandhi
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You never talk about what you want when giving money. I don't pay attention to what other people think... There shouldn't be restrictions of any kind on political contributions.
Harold Simmons
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I did grow up reading the 'Twilight' books. I feel guilty, but I was always Team Edward.
Halston Sage
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If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night.
Eamon de Valera
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Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal.
Dan O'Brien
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Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great prophets of the past.
Karen Armstrong
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We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law.
Mahmoud Abbas
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At the earliest ending of winter, In March, a scrawny cry from outside Seemed like a sound in his mind. He knew that he heard it, A bird's cry, at daylight or before, In the early March wind.
Wallace Stevens
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If I am right, Thy grace import Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, oh teach my heart To find that better way!
Alexander Pope
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overwhelming force indiscriminately applied, not giving up on it well after he was sure no more was required.
Lee Child
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No form of Nature is inferior to Art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.
Marcus Aurelius
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Indeed, Mr. Jefferson, what could be invented to debase the ancient Christianism which Greeks, Romans, Hebrews and Christian factions, above all the Catholics, have not fraudulently imposed upon the public? Miracles after miracles have rolled down in torrents.
John Adams
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Most non-New Yorkers, finding themselves within hearing range of strangers' conversation, think it's nice to pretend they didn't hear. But many New Yorkers think it's nice to toss in a relevant comment.
Deborah Tannen
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Believe it or not, I can actually draw.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
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Given the profits he and Pharaoh must have made, one might call Joseph the first international arbitrageur.
Benoit Mandelbrot
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Of course, when you work with actors and when you work on a script everything that you know about the human experience can't possibly go in.
Deniz Gamze Erguven
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One of the fellows called me 'Cyclone' but finally shortened it to 'Cy' and its been that ever since.
Cy Young