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• The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it.

  Casey Stengel
  American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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• The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them, for knowledge can only lead to love, and love to service. And so, if they are not touched by them, it's because they do not know them.

  Mother Teresa
  Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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• The trouble with being a daydreamer who doesn’t say much is that the teachers at school, especially those who don’t know you very well, are likely to think you’re rather stupid. Or, if not stupid, then dull. No one can see the amazing things that are going on in your head.

  Ian McEwan
  English novelist and screenwriter (1948 - )
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• The trouble with fulfilling your ambitions is you think you will be transformed into some sort of archangel and you're not. You still have to wash your socks.

  Louis de Bernieres
  British novelist (1954 - )
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• The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

  George Bernard Shaw
  Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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• The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.

  Billy Sunday
  American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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• The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

  Paul Valery
  French poet (1871 - 1945)
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• The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.

  Josh Billings
  American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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• The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.

  Bill Shankly
  Scottish football player and manager (1913 - )
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• The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

  Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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• The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.

  A. E. Housman
  British poet (1859 - 1936)
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• The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cover the gash; but when the tree is very old, peeling the bark off, and looking carefully, you will see the scar there still. All that is buried is not dead.

  Olive Schreiner
  South African author and anti-war campaigner (1855 - 1920)
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• The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.

  Frederick W. Robertson
  English divine (1816 - 1853)
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• The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.

  Pope John XXIII
  Catholic Pope from 1958-1963 (1881 - 1963)
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• The true color of life is the color of the body, the color of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest color of the unpublished blood.

  Alice Meynell
  British poet, writer (1847 - 1922)
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• The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.

  Bill Veeck
  American Major League Baseball franchise owner and promoter (1914 - )
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• The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.

  James Russell Lowell
  American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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• The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever.

  Point Omega (2010) 17

  Don DeLillo
  American Author (1936 - )
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• The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

  Matthew Arnold
  British critic and poet (1822 - 1888)
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• The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.

  John Lyly
  English writer, poet, dramatist, and courtier (1553 - 1606)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• conversation
• unpublished
• especially
• fulfilling
• capistrano
• archangel

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