Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing. ~Gene Tunney
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In the Negro countenance you will often meet with strong traits of benignity. I have felt yearnings of tenderness towards some of these faces. ~Charles Lamb
#quotes #charles-lamb #black

My dad in particular, I tend to use; I call him "The Brain." If he's accessible, I'd rather put it through his brain. My wife, Melissa, maintains that the closer he is in proximity to me, the less I think for myself. And I think she's actually correct. So anything worth mulling over, I will mull over with my father, and that includes ratings. ~Joshua Malina
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The people of Chicago are a proud people; and for good reason. ~Jane Byrne
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My teenage years were spent trying to look like Rod Stewart; I ended up looking like Dave Hill from Slade. ~Tony Parsons
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Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics. As only those who dare to make mistakes succeed greatly, only those who shake free the wings of their imagination brush, once in a way, the secrets of the great pale world. If such writers go wrong, it is not for the mere brains to tell them so ~Gertrude Atherton
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An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. ~Thomas Fuller
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Even if you're not going anywhere, do not get in the way. ~Jose Bergamin
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Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear. ~Lord Byron
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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship. ~Spanish Proverb
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Knowing that you are completely forgiven destroys the power of sin in your life. ~Joseph Prince
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I don't ever want to be comfortable with anything I'm doing. ~Ron Perlman
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An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit. ~American Proverb
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An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest. ~Spanish Proverb
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Who will not judge him worthy to be robbed. That sets his doors wide open to a thief, and shows the felon where his treasure lies? ~Ben Jonson
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The maxims of men disclose their hearts. ~French Proverb
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No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest, for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude. ~T. S. Eliot
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books. ~Chinese Proverb
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Christians were regarded as separated from society and therefore destructive of the Greco-Roman way of life. ~Kenneth Scott Latourette
#quotes #kenneth-scott-latourette #christianity #society

If you had to choose only two qualities to get you through times of change, the first should be a sense of self-worth and the second a sense of humor. ~Jennifer James
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It is amazing how many people beat you at golf now that you are no longer president. ~George H. W. Bush
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A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing. ~Pearl Bailey
#quotes #pearl-bailey #king #success #inpiration

There's detailed information on how to assemble a nuclear weapon from parts. There's books about how to build a nuclear bomb. ~Irwin Redlener
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Nothing like the road to rub all the sand out of your soul. ~John Clellon Holmes
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A horse is worth more than riches. ~Spanish Proverb
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