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The purpose of man is in action not thought.


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Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.



He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.



Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.



No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.



Endurance is patience concentrated.

Endurance is patience concentrated.



I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.



Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.



A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.



A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.



Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.





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If you ask any great player or great quarterback, there's a certain inner confidence that you're as good as anybody. But you can't say who is the absolute best. To be considered is special in itself.

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It so often happens that, after sacrificing a pawn, a player aims not to obtain the initiative for it, but to regain sacrificed material.



You can't really call yourself an environmentalist if you're still consuming animals. You just can't.

You can't really call yourself an environmentalist if you're still consuming animals. You just can't.



I'm convinced that imagination is at the heart of everything we do - in art, science, even astrophysics and higher mathematics. Imagination leads us to ask, "What if?"

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But you don't have to go up in the stands and play your foul balls. I do.

But you don't have to go up in the stands and play your foul balls. I do.



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Don't over-react to the trouble makers.

Don't over-react to the trouble makers.




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