Quotes with walking-match

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  • Friedrich Nietzsche A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • William Shakespeare A walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Muhammad Ali Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
    Muhammad Ali
    American Boxer (1942 - 2016)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • William Faulkner All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Bernard Levin His absent-minded scientist, Dr. Strabismus (whom God Preserve) of Utrecht, had to his credit a list of inventions that included 'a leather grape', 'a revolving wheelbarrow', 'a hollow glass walking stick for keeping very small flannel shirts in...
    Bernard Levin
    English journalist, author and broadcaster (1928 - 2004)
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  • Russell Wayne Baker Life is always walking up to us and saying, ''Come on in, the living's find,'' and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.
    Russell Wayne Baker
    American writer (1925 - 2019)
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  • Everett M. Dirksen The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.
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  • Valerie Solanas To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he's a machine, a walking dildo.
    Valerie Solanas
    American feminist and author (1936 - 1988)
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  • Billy Graham 'Suffering should not make us bitter people,' my mother once said, 'it should make us better comforters.' Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they'll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Arnold J. Toynbee A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.
    Arnold J. Toynbee
    British historian and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Ben Gibbard A lot of the material is about the inevitable disappointment people feel as they move through life, and things don't feel the way they expect. No experience will ever match up to the idealized version in your mind.
    The Meaning Of Life
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Charles Dickens A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Buddha A woman of the world is anxious to exhibit her form and shape, whether walking, standing, sitting, or sleeping. Even when represented as a picture, she desires to captivate with the charms of her beauty and, thus, to rob men of their steadfast heart.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Action in war is like movement in a resistant element. Just as the simplest and most natural of movements, walking, cannot easily be performed in water, so in war it is difficult for normal efforts to achieve even moderate results.
    On War (1832) Ch. 7, as translated by Michael Howard and Peter P
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Henry Miller After all, most writing is done away from the typewriter, away from the desk. I'd say it occurs in the quiet, silent moments, while you're walking or shaving or playing a game, or whatever, or even talking to someone you're not vitally interested in.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Bill Klem An angry player can't argue with the back of an umpire who is walking away.
    Bill Klem
    American professional baseball umpire (1874 - 1951)
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  • George Chapman And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.
    George Chapman
    English writer and poet (1559 - 1634)
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  • Bill Bryson And then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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