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To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half…
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If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've…
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Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!
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Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a…
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I like going from one lighted room to another, such is my brain to me; lighted rooms.
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Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see…
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If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very…
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King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good…
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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what…
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To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.
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Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we…
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The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.
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Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper…
— Evan Bayh
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Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip.
— Erma Bombeck
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Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
— Jean Cocteau
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Complaining about the weather seems to be a favorite American pastime. Sadly, we Christians often get caught up in this ungodly habit…
— Jerry Bridges
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I think it puts baseball back on the map as a sport. It's America's pastime and just look at everyone coming out…
— Mark McGwire
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Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.
— Mary Russell Mitford
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What earthly good is golf? Life is stern and life is earnest. We live in a practical age. All around us we…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest - thought, action - is just a pastime, mental…
— Cesare Pavese
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Golf is the art of driving hard, avoiding the rough, surmounting traps and hazards, aiming straight, and arriving on the green at…
— Rick Bayan
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Baseball is not a conventional industry. It belongs neither to the players nor management, but to all of us. It is our…
— John Thorn
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As concerning football, I protest unto you that it may rather be called a friendly kind of fight than a play or…
— Philip Stubbs
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