Quotes with two-and-twenty

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  • Bill Dickey A catcher must want to catch. He must make up his mind that it isn't the terrible job it is painted, and that he isn't going to say every day, 'Why, oh why with so many other positions in baseball did I take up this one.'
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  • Barbara Holland A catless writer is almost inconceivable. It's a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat; they make nests in the notes and bite the end of the pen and walk on the typewriter keys.
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  • Arnold Bennett A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Jeremy Taylor A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.
    Jeremy Taylor
    British churchman and writer (1613 - 1667)
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  • Carl Sagan A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to experiment. Arguments from authority are unacceptable.
    Billions and Billions: Thoughts of Life and Death at the Brink of the Millenium (1997) Ch. 14, The Common Enemy.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Anna Louise Strong A certain number of Americans are already in Peking and most of us here feel that it would be very useful for the United States and especially for the Left-wing progressive movement in the United States if groups of students such as you mention could make a tour of China.
    Anna Louise Strong
    American journalist and activist (1885 - 1970)
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  • Pat Riley A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.
    Pat Riley
    American basketball coach (1945 - )
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  • Marcel Proust A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich A child is not a salmon mousse. A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Alice Duer Miller A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.
    Alice Duer Miller
    American writer (1874 - 1942)
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  • Bennet Omalu A child who plays a game of football for one season without any documented concussion - several months after that season, if you subject his brain to sophisticated psychological testing and radiological testing, functional MRIs, there is evidence of brain damage.
    Bennet Omalu
    Nigerian-American physician and neuropathologist (1968 - )
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  • Arthur Miller A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Aldous Huxley A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay A church is disaffected when it is persecuted, quiet when it is tolerated, and actively loyal when it is favored and cherished.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • Burt Lancaster A circus is like a mother in whom one can confide and who rewards and punishes.
    Burt Lancaster
    American actor and producer (1913 - 1994)
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  • Bill Dedman A city built on rivers and bituminous coal, Pittsburgh in the '90s has survived the boom and bust years.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Margaret Mead A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.
    Margaret Mead
    American cultural anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
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  • Ezra Pound A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Anthony Holden A close associate of his gave an interview in which the book was described as quotes 'fiction from being to end'. I suffered trial by tabloid for a couple of weeks, lots of insults in the press, in the columns - this man should be put in the tower and so on.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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