Course Quotes
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The revolution of Saint Domingo was taking its course. I saw that the whites could not endure, because they were divided and because they were overpowered by numbers; I congratulated myself that I was a black man.
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Can you deal with the most vital matters by letting events take their course? Can you step back from you own mind and thus understand all things? Giving birth and nourishing, having without possessing, acting with no expectations, leading and not trying to control: this is the supreme virtue.
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He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger... Men of superior mind busy themselves first getting at the root of things; when they succeed, the right course is open to them.
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I think what President Barack Obama has done is to chart a steady course. When I was there, the first four years we had a lot of cleanup to do. We inherited a lot of bad feelings from the George W. Bush administration, and much of what I spent my time doing was traveling around the world reassuring friends and allies.
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Do the math. Expect catastrophes. Whatever happens, stay the course.
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Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know.
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The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.
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I always said that if they have a golf course like this in heaven, I want to be the head pro.
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The scores were going so low all week. You just have to keep your foot to the floor on this golf course. Fortunately, I made a lot of good putts coming into the house.
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Of course it is a very simple matter to identify genes which might modify intelligence or memory and start thinking about whether you want to enhance a human, and the next generation is going to have to deal with that issue. Should we be trying to enhance humans rather than trying to educate them and so on?
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I was never able to convince myself that there was a cost-free alternative course, as from 1961, or that any of the different strategies since proposed, especially those involving stronger military action, would have made sense.
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He was a Parisian. You can never be sure what Parisians believe in – beyond Paris of course.
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If you love something, set it free. If it was meant to be, it will come back to you. But this, of course, was bullshit. If you loved something and let it go...it would find something else to love.
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Shelving hard decisions is the least ethical course.
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There are, of course, an infinite number of places where one is not, yet only one place where one actually is.
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If a man has directed his course to great ends there is compensation even in ruin.
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The course is so long, I had to take the curvature of the Earth into consideration.
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I don't think there can be a greater honor for any golfer, what they can do off the golf course.
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Sonic and I were chatting back before we got on and he was telling me how proud he was to be inducted last year in the Walk of Game. The only thing he was a little concerned about was being walked on all the time. I said that's OK; it's par for the course.
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If you live in a squalid environment, then of course you are going to want to get out of it, you are probably going to want to get into the country, because that's what it does.
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Fear is choosing the safe course...
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After me, the Revolution - or, rather the ideas which formed it - will resume their course. It will be like a book from which the marker is removed, and one starts to read again at the page where one left off.
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Whatever happens on the golf course is OK, because if I put the ball in trouble I know that I have the skills to get it out of trouble and back into play.
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Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.
