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All Quotes Collection
"No coach has ever won a game by what he knows; it's what his players know that counts."
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"A good, quick, small team can beat a big, slow team any time."
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"It's nice to have the opportunity to play for so much money, but it's nicer to win it."
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"Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully."
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"Winning isn't everything, but it beats anything in second place."
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"Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign."
Pain,
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"Loveliest of lovely things are they on earth that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour is prized beyond the sculptured flower."
49
"The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within."
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"Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger."
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"Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - children into strength and athletic proportion."
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"A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty."
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"A stable, changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep."
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"All that tread, the globe are but a handful to the tribes, that slumber in its bosom."
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"And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death."
43
"Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence."
40
"Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong."
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"The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it."
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"Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know what he thinks he knows."
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"Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains."
43
"I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted - stay up all night or eat ice-cream straight out of the container."
40
"The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what we actually know."
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"There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age."
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"When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression."
48
"The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population."
41
"Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire."
40
"The first and most important is to emphasize the enduring nature of the alliance relationship particularly with Europe which does share our values and interests even if it disagrees with us on specific policies."
55
"Let's cooperate and challenge the administration to cooperate with us because within the administration there are also moderates and people who are not fully comfortable with the tendencies that have prevailed in recent times."
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"According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979."
55
"I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?"
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"I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation."
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"But if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace it cannot bring into it its imperial baggage. It cannot bring into it a policy of genocide against the Chechens, and cannot kill journalists, and it cannot repress the mass media."
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"Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate."
50
"Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is nominal. Any number of countries that are sovereign are sovereign only nominally and relatively."
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