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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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The condition of leadership adds new degrees of solitariness to the basic solitude of mankind. Every order that we issue increases the…
— Thornton Wilder
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Religion is what a person does in his solitariness.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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In our solitariness... great depths are sometimes sounded. Truth hideth in company.
— Austin Osman Spare
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Most of the scientists I have known well have felt - just as deeply as the non-scientists I have known well -…
— Carrie P Snow
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I enjoyed the discipline and solitariness of long-distance running, which allowed me to escape from the hurly-burly of school life.
— Nelson Mandela
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The New England spirit does not seek solutions in a crowd; raw light and solitariness are less dreaded than welcomed as enhancers…
— John Updike
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Religion is what a man does with his solitariness.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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In its solitariness the spirit asks, What, in the way of value, is the attainment of life? And it can find no…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only…
— Eric Hoffer
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Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Most part of a lover's life is full of agony, anxiety, fear and grief, complaints, sighs, suspicions, and cares (heigh-ho my heart…
— Robert Burton
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