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When it comes to sports I am not particularly interested. Generally speaking, I look upon them as dangerous and tiring activities performed by people with…
— Fran Lebowitz
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A study of Disease-of Pestilences methodically prepared and deliberately launched upon man and beast-is certainly being pursue in the laboratories of more than one great…
— Winston Churchill
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I have full confidence in your courage and devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full Victory! Good luck!…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Good night, then - sleep to gather strength for the morning. For the morning will come. Brightly will it shine on the brave and true,…
— Winston Churchill
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The Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the future of Christian civilization.
— Winston Churchill
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It must be a peace without victory...Victory would mean peace forced upon the loser, a victor's terms imposed upon the vanquished. It would be accepted…
— Woodrow Wilson
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But it's the wrestler who can put the fatigue out of his mind and break through the "wall," like a marathon runner after 18 or…
— Unknown Author
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There is probably nothing finer than to climb free and unencumbered by equipment, reveling in the gymnastic upward movement, like Preuss or a Dulfer before…
— Hermann Buhl
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The fact, however, to which I want to call attention is that the master of Judo never relies upon his own strength. He scarcely uses…
— Lafcadio Hearn
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In thy youth wast as true a lover, As ever sighed upon a midnight pillow
— William Shakespeare
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Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin; a bloody man, vicious; a…
— Willa Cather
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Love is the only bow of life's dark cloud. It is the Morning and Evening Star. It shines upon the cradle of the babe, and…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Love is not obedience, conformity, or submission. It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward. True love is respect and…
— Dan Barker
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The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.
— Jean Paul
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It is disgusting to notice the increase in the quantity of coffee used by my subjects, and the amount of money that goes out of…
— Frederick The Great
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Exalt the Cross! God has hung the destiny of the race upon it. Other things we may do in the realm of ethics, and on…
— Theodore L. Cuyler
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We may say that on the first Good Friday afternoon was completed that great act by which light conquered darkness and goodness conquered sin. That…
— Phillips Brooks
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If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another man's…
— Henry David Thoreau
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There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't…
— Mario Savio
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Our cause is a common one. It is war between poverty and wealth. ... This moneyed power is fast eating up the substance of the…
— Unknown Author
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Whether we're prepared or not, life has a habit of thrusting situations upon us.
— Lucille Ball
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If you would attain to your highest, go look upon a flower;what the flower does willessly, that do willingly.
— Friedrich Schiller
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Father Time is not always a hard parent and though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who…
— Charles Dickens
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I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.
— George Farquhar
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There was an Old Person of Brussels, Who lived upon Brandy and Mussels; When he rushed through the town, he knocked most people down, Which…
— Edward Lear
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