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"If worms carried pistols, birds wouldn't eat 'em."
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"I look out of this window and I think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and birds and everything else and I'm part of it. I didn't ask to be put here, I've been lucky in finding myself here."
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"Evolutionary biologists are not content merely to explain how variation occurs within limits, however. They aspire to answer a much broader question-which is how complex organisms like birds, and flowers, and human beings came into existence in the first place."
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"Birds are indicators of the environment. If they are in trouble, we know we'll soon be in trouble."
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"When birds burp, it must taste like bugs."
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"Self-help books are for the birds. Self-help groups are where it's at."
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"Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them."
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"To a man, ornithologists are tall, slender, and bearded so that they can stand motionless for hours, imitating kindly trees, as they watch for birds."
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"When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first."
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"But hopes are Shy Birds flying at a great distance seldom reached by the best of Guns."
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"The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds - the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall."
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"You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish."
Optimism

"I learned this about coaching: You don't have to explain victory and you can't explain defeat."
Victory

"I don't count on the boy who waits till October, when it's cool and fun, then decides he wants to play."
Fun

"I used to care more about the score than I do now."
Care

"If I were going to stay in coaching, I would have stayed right there because I was totally happy."
Coach

"For me, it is just the total experience - from the time I first started as an assistant coach until I wound up at the University of Texas for 20 years."
Experience

"I was in a profession that received a lot of media."
Media

"I knew that when I resigned from the University of Texas that I would never coach again."
Coach

"I try not to play two days in succession. I usually try to space it so I have a day in between."
Retirement

"I have found that the players who have played in that game really do have respect for their adversaries."
Respect
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