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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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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.
— Leo Buscaglia
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How can we love days that are filled with sorrow? We can't-at least not in the moment. I don't think my mother…
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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O witches, O misery, O hate, to you has my treasure been entrusted! I contrived to purge my mind of all human…
— Arthur Rimbaud
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A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by…
— Charles Bowers
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Now, so there will be no misunderstanding, it's not my intention to do away with government. It is rather to make it…
— Ronald Reagan
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Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.
— George Eliot
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But you learn to smother the living breathing soul, go deaf to it, and this violence to the self is what is…
— Philip O Ceallaigh
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It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own…
— Betty Friedan
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A man may manifest and communicate his joy, but he should conceal and smother his grief as much as possible.
— Robert E. Lee
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Contentment: The smother of invention.
— Ethel Mumford
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It is defeat that lives on and takes the years to smother.
— Ben Robertson
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At times many of us let that enemy of achievement--even the culprit 'self-defeat'--dwarf our aspirations, smother our dreams, cloud our vision, and…
— Thomas S. Monson
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