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I've seen fathers criticizing their sons the moment a game's over. Not my dad. It doesn't matter if I threw an interception or a Hail Mary, he always says, 'Good job, son, I'm proud of you.' Then he shakes my hand and gives me a hug. Every time.
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I've seen plays that are, objectively, total messes that move me in ways that their tidier brethren do not. That's the romantic mystery of great theater. Translating this ineffability into printable prose is a challenge that can never be fully met.
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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
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Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.
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Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.
The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism (1928) -
If a country like Chile can fix its social security system, there is no reason a country as great as the United States... can't fix our Social Security system.
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If a government is to do great new things, it will need more support. If a government is to change the world, it will need mass support. This is one of the discoveries of modern government.
In Defence Of Politics A Footnote To Rally The Academic, p. 179 -
If a great destruction occurs in Bangkok, then the country as a whole is also destroyed. In such a case, what is the point of anyone feeling proud to be the winner, when standing on a pile of ruins and rubble?
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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.
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If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
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If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.
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If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get done.
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If all you boast of your great art be true;
Sure, willing poverty lives most in you.The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio VI, To Alchemists, lines 1-2. -
If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.
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If Britney would paint her ass green, I'm sure you could spot green asses all over LA as soon as the word was out.
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If Germany is to become a colonizing power, all I say is, ''God speed her!'' She becomes our ally and partner in the execution of the great purposes of Providence for the advantage of mankind.
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If He Tom Sawyer had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
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If I don't get eight hours, I can't function, so I'm a great believer in power naps.
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If I ever did cross over I would like to do it tactfully. I don't want to offend anyone in country. Can you have the best of both worlds? I sure like the idea of it!
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If I had my life to live over again, I'd be a plumber.
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