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212 quotes by 191 authors

Public life, politics and industry should all of them be within our sphere of influence.... If we are to infiltrate the professional and social activities… — John Rawlings Rees
There should be a new way to record standings in this league; one column for wins, one for losses and one for gifts. — Gene Mauch
When I started writing a business column 15 years ago, I knew I'd found the perfect job for myself. As a columnist I could pick… — Allan Sloan
To my surprise I found that when other top players in the precomputer age (before 1995, roughly) wrote about games in magazines and newspaper columns,… — Garry Kasparov
A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt,… — Mary Schmich
Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity. — Allan Sloan
The vast army of McClellan spread out before me. The marching columns extended back as far as eye could see in the distance. It was… — Daniel Harvey Hill
Your little army, derided for its want of arms, derided for its lack of all the essential material of war, has met the grand army… — Jefferson Davis
Men, you are in a battle. You are in a war. The stakes of this war and its casualties are higher than a checkmark in… — Tony Evans
It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused A. B. Spottsworth to… — P.G. Wodehouse
For the first lesson, I want you to play over every column of Modern Chess Openings, including the footnotes. And for the next lesson, I… — Bobby Fischer
All day long I add up columns of figures and make everything balanced. I come home. I sit down. I look at a Kandinsky and… — Solomon R. Guggenheim
I read a column by George Will that SCARFACE should be rated X because parents were taking their children to see it. So what? Why… — Ian Shoales
No one writes a story like Lydia Davis. In the years since she began publishing her lyrical, extremely short fiction, she has quietly become one… — Jonathan Messinger
The authour who imitates his predecessors only by furnishing himself with thoughts and elegances out of the same general magazine of literature, can with little… — Samuel Johnson
I think it's important that, as a matter of course, the brain and spinal column were removed from this cow, and that would be the… — Ann Veneman
In 1996, the late, great New York Times columnist William Safire published a column, 'Blizzard of lies,' in which he laid out a series of… — Marc Thiessen
A close associate of his gave an interview in which the book was described as quotes 'fiction from being to end'. I suffered trial by… — Anthony Holden
It had run as a column - I had worked at the paper since 1976, but the column had been running for 13 years, and… — Robert Scheer
Three Songs 1 Mountain. I whip my quick horse and don't dismount and look back in wonder. The sky is three feet away. 2 Mountain.… — Mao Zedong

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