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• Jazz Improvisation means that practice is not as straightforward as it would be when you simply have a score to play.

  Ahmad Jamal

  Music, Mean, Practice

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• Your Soviet players are cheating, losing the games on purpose to my rival, Botvinnik, in order to increase his points on the score. - (to Stalin in Moscow 1936 where he finished in 1st place, 1 point ahead of Botvinnik)

  Jose Raul Capablanca

  Cheating, Player, Order

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• There are a score of great religions in the world, each with scores or hundreds of sects, each with its priestly orders, its complicated creed and ritual, its heavens and hells. Each has its thousands or millions or hundreds of millions of true believers each damns all the others with more or less heartiness - and each is a mighty fortress of graft.

  Upton Sinclair

  Order, Heaven, Religion

  Upton Sinclair (2005). “The Profits of Religion”, p.23, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.

  Archibald Alexander Hodge

  Wise, Wisdom, Courage

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• To win you have to score one more goal than your opponent

  Johan Cruijff

  Inspirational, Motivational, Teamwork

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• Individuals score points, but teams win games.

  Zig Ziglar

  Sports, Teamwork, Winning

  Zig Ziglar (2003). “Zig Ziglar's Life Lifters”, p.83, B&H Publishing Group

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• Sometimes what we call love is just a settling of old scores, or a seeking of forbidden pain, or a circuitous path to the kingdom of cruelty, or she may simply have confused lack of capital with heroism while searching for rescue without knowing from what.

  Anne Roiphe

  Pain, Confused, Love Is

  Anne Roiphe (1999). “1185 Park Avenue”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• Some guys score and some guys don't. We got a lot that don't.

  Mike Babcock

  Hockey, Nhl, Guy

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• Two or three years ago, every game I want to score. And after I score a goal I have a spark and I'm so happy I want more. Now I'mkind of different. I'm not saying I lost my spark - I still have it - but I don't chase the goal as much as I used to. I'm playing for the team andI still know I can score, but it's different than two or three years back.Look at great teams like Detroit a couple of years ago; they winthe Stanley Cup and guys only score 25 goals, nobody has a really big season. You have to play defense, that's how you win.

  Peter Bondra

  Couple, Team, Hockey

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• My job is to score goals.

  Peter Bondra

  Jobs, Hockey, Goal

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• We have forty-four defenses for him, but he has forty-five ways to score.

  Al Attles

  Sports, Defense, Four

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• You never lose a game if the opponent doesn't score.

  Darrell Royal

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• Vice President Spiro Agnew can not cheat on his score : because all you have to do is look back down the fairway and count the wounded.

  Bob Hope

  Golf, President, Vices

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• I was asked by a golfer how to lower his scores. I replied start playing 9 holes instead of 18. I worked for me, it cut my scores in half.

  Brian Weiss

  Golf, Cutting, Half

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• I was shooting in the low 70s and 60s by the time I was twelve. That's the great thing about golf. It doesn't matter how old or young you are; if you're 90 and can shoot a good score, people will want to play with you.

  Bubba Watson

  Golf, Play, People

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• Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty, how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Education, Teaching, Men

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• There are vivid memories from my childhood-what we had to go through because of low wages and the conditions, basically because there was no union. I suppose if I wanted to be fair I could say that I'm trying to settle a personal score. I could dramatize it by saying that I want to bring social justice to farm workers. But the truth is that I went through a lot of hell, and a lot of people did. If we can even the score a little for the workers then we are doing something. Besides, I don't know any other work I like to do better than this. I really don't.

  Cesar Chavez

  Memories, Commitment, People

  Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.78, Penguin

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• Old men, for the most part, are like old chronicles that give you dull but true accounts of times past, and are worth knowing only on that score.

  Alexander Pope

  Memories, Past, Men

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.125

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• It [would have] been very difficult. As I said, the rules ... but if the rules were put in place back when Michael Jordan was in his prime - no hand-checking, the game was more geared toward offense, wanting to promote scoring in the game - he could have probably got close. He did score 69.

  Scottie Pippen

  Basketball, Hands, Games

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• I'm also very pleased that we were able to include a full orchestrated score for Dragon's Lair 3D. The 40 different music pieces blend with the action to make you feel more a part of the whole adventure.

  Don Bluth

  Travel, Adventure, Dragons

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• I don't just try to score. The challenge is elevating my teammates to be able to win a championship.

  Kobe Bryant

  Basketball, Winning, Challenges

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• I grabbed 19 rebounds in my first professional game, and somehow found a way to score 20 points. I felt real good about it. I felt that this was the beginning of something good.

  Julius Erving

  Basketball, Real, Games

  The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

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• If you're keeping score, win!

  Red Auerbach

  Basketball, Winning, Ifs

  "Red Auerbach: What I've Learned" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• If winning weren't important nobody would keep score.

  Al McGuire

  Basketball, Winning, Important

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• When test scores go up, we should worry, because of how poor a measure they are of what matters, and what you typically sacrifice in a desperate effort to raise scores.

  Alfie Kohn

  School, Sacrifice, What Matters

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