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All Quotes Collection
"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards."
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"There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion."
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"Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself."
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"Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one."
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"The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting."
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"I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling for him."
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"I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face."
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"I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice."
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"Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is eighty percent of being a successful hitter. The other twenty percent is just execution."
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"Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic."
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"Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination."
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"Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell."
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"Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best."
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"Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country."
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"For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!"
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"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government."
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"Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others."
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"Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit."
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"When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem."
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"There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California."
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"The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already."
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"The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders."
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"That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding."
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"Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top."
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"Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down."
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"What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse."
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