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  • Ouida Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit by women is much more to be regretted than its pursuit by men, because women pursue much more violently and recklessly what they pursue at all.
    Ouida
    English novelist, pseudonym of Maria Louise Ramé (1839 - 1908)
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  • Bruce Dern Sports betting is all about money management, so the most money won on one event is not the most important thing.
    Bruce Dern
    American actor (1936 - )
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  • Art Rooney Sportswriters. They were all my friends. They were racetrack guys and so was I.
    Art Rooney
    American football team owner (1901 - )
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  • Bryan Callen Stand-up comedy is all you. It's your show, it's your game. You control every aspect of it - of that experience and that expression. There's really nothing quite as satisfying.
    Bryan Callen
    American stand-up comedian, actor, writer (1967 - )
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  • Anna Lindh States have the responsibility to create rules and conditions for growth and development, and to channel the benefits to all citizens by providing education and making people able to participate in the economies, and in decision-making.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
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  • Machiavelli States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • Lewis Thomas Statistically, the probability of any of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in contented dazzlement of surprise.
    Lewis Thomas
    American arts (1913 - 1993)
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  • Bjorn Ulvaeus Stockholm is unique in that it's built on islands and surrounded by water, so you get this enormous sense of freedom. It's got everything you could possibly need - everything New York or London has but without all the people and traffic. It's also become a very creative city, not only for music but also for fashion and computer games.
    Bjorn Ulvaeus
    Swedish songwriter, producer, member of ABBA (1945 - )
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  • Bob Dylan Stop all this weeping, swallow your pride
    You will not die, it's not poison
    Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Blanche Lincoln Stopping crime before it occurs is the most effective crime fighting tool of all.
    Blanche Lincoln
    American politician and lawyer (1960 - )
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  • Barry McGee Street artists need to get back to actually doing things on the streets instead of in the galleries where they all seem to be ending up. I hope this term 'street artist' falls from the face of the earth, in my honest opinion.
    Barry McGee
    American artist
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Bobby Scott Studies have shown that inmate participation in education, vocational and job training, prison work skills development, drug abuse, mental health and other treatment programs, all reduce recidivism, significantly.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Bill Mollison Stupidity is an attempt to iron out all differences, and not to use or value them creatively.
    Permaculture: A Designers Manual chapter 4.7
    Bill Mollison
    Australian author, teacher and biologist (1928 - 2016)
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  • Samuel Johnson Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • John Ruskin Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Orville Wright Success four flights Thursday morning all against twenty one mile wind started from Level with engine power alone speed through air thirty one miles longest 57 second inform Press home Christmas.
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  • Wilferd Arlan Peterson Success is focusing the full power of all you are one what you have a burning desire to achieve.
    Wilferd Arlan Peterson
    American author (1900 - 1995)
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  • John Wooden Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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