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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 imagine most of that stuff on the information highway is roadkill anyway.
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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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In memory's telephoto lens, far objects are magnified.
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Without rain, there would be no life.
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Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad, hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us.
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Many men are more faithful to their golf partners than to their wives and have stuck with them longer.
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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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"Hit it with the back of your left hand" was the first swing thought I ever heard, brusquely bu not unlovingly put…
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...as all souls are equal before their Maker, a two inch putt counts the same as a 250 yard drive. There is…
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Silence,they say,is the voice of complicity. But silence is impossible. Silence screams. Silence is the message,just as doing nothing is an act.…
— Leonard Peltier
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Liquor is not a necessity. It is a means of momentarily sidestepping necessity.
— Clifton Fadiman
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There may be no more-radioactive term in the English language than what we now almost always refer to as the 'n-word' -…
— Jeffrey Kluger
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Apple is to the United States government what Clarence Thomas was to the civil rights coalition. How dare you get this big…
— Rush Limbaugh
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Let us not mock God with metaphor, Analogy, sidestepping, transcendence; Making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the Faded…
— John Updike
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It is not by sidestepping or fleeing from suffering that we are healed, but rather by our capacity for accepting it, maturing…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Rise to the challenges that life presents you. You can't develop genuine character and ability by sidestepping adversity and struggle.
— Daisaku Ikeda
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What's this about flashing underwear?" says Uriah, sidestepping a bunk. "Whatever it is, I'm in.
— Veronica Roth
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His reversed body gracefully curved, his brown legs hoisted like a Tarentine sail, his joined ankles tacking, Vangripped with splayed hands the…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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