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You always find things you didn't know you were going to say, and that is the adventure...
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Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic un-interestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity,…
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The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things.
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I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip…
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What other sport holds out hope of improvement to a man or a woman over fifty? True, the pros begin to falter…
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The other sad truth about golf spectatorship is that for today's pros it all comes down to the putting, and that the…
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When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves…
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Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.
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What can it be about low temperatures that sharpens the edges of objects?
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Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live; science, everything that sharpens the desire to know. Art, even the most disinterested,…
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It seems to me that today, if the artist wishes to be serious - to cut out a little original niche for…
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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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Nothing quenches the thirst like a wheat beer, or sharpens the appetite like an India pale ale. Nothing goes as well with…
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The practice of law sharpens the mind by making it narrow.
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Praise God for the hammer, the file, and the furnace. The hammer molds us, the file sharpens us, and the fire tempers…
— Samuel Rutherford
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As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
— Solomon
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