Quotes with pitch-and-throw

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  • John Mortimer The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.
    John Mortimer
    English barrister, dramatist, screenwriter, and author (1923 - 2009)
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  • Stendhal The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
    Stendhal
    French writer (ps. of Marie Henri Beyle) (1783 - 1842)
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  • Carter G. Woodson The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • E. B. White The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation's pulse, you can't be sure that the nation hasn't just run up a flight of stairs.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation, as a feather and a guinea fall with equel velocity in a vacuum.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Italo Calvino The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.
    Italo Calvino
    Italian writer (1923 - 1985)
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  • Confucius The superior man will watch over himself when he is alone. He examines his heart that there may be nothing wrong there, and that he may have no cause of dissatisfaction with himself.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth. Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man's power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
    Who Is Man? (1965)
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Samuel Johnson The Supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things - the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • James Newman The Theory of Groups is a branch of mathematics in which one does something to something and then compares the result with the result obtained from doing the same thing to something else, or something else to the same thing.
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling The Three in One, the One in Three? Not so! To my own Gods I go. It may be they shall give me greater ease than your cold Christ and tangled Trinities.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Robert M. Hutchins The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty.
    Robert M. Hutchins
    American educational philosopher (1899 - 1977)
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  • Bill Copeland The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score.
    Bill Copeland
    American poet, writer and historian (1946 - 2010)
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  • Hannah Whitall Smith The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
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  • Heywood Broun The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.
    Heywood Broun
    American Journalist, Novelist (1888 - 1939)
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  • Sir Matthew Hale The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly.
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  • Confucius The way of the superior person is threefold; virtuous, they are free from anxieties; wise they are free from perplexities; and bold they are free from fear.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Benjamin Franklin The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Angela Carter The whore is despised by the hypocritical world because she has made a realistic assessment of her assets and does not have to rely on fraud to make a living. In an area of human relations where fraud is regular practice between the sexes, her honesty is regarded with a mocking wonder.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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