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• Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up; a single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again.

  William James

  Fall, Wind, Suffering

  William James, Robert D Richardson (2010). “The Heart of William James”, p.111, Harvard University Press

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• A lie is like a snow-ball; the longer it is rolled, the larger it is.

  Martin Luther

  Lying, Snow

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• From the beginning it was drilled into me that a golf course was a place where character fully reveals itself -- both its strengths and its flaws. As a result, I learned early not only to fix my ball marks but also to congratulate an opponent on a good shot, avoid walking ahead of a player preparing to shoot, remain perfectly still when someone else was playing, and a score of other small courtesies that revealed, in my father's mind, one's abiding respect for the game.

  Arnold Palmer

  Father, Character, Golf

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• Golf challenges you mentally at any age, and when you become my age, it's a challenge physically to try to make your game work as well as it ever did. That's close to impossible, but that doesn't keep you from trying to hit the ball where you used to hit it and make the putts you used to make all the time.

  Arnold Palmer

  Golf, Games, Challenges

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• Clemente could field the ball in New York and throw out a guy in Pennsylvania.

  Vin Scully

  New York, Guy, Pennsylvania

  "He Just Can't Kick the Baseball Habit" by Peter Leo, www.post-gazette.com. July 11, 2006.

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• [George W. Bush] has balls. And he's a leader. Unfortunately his balls and leadership are in the service of shitty ideas. We need his balls on someone who thinks right.

  Bill Maher

  Thinking, Ideas, Leader

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• We're like Magic 8-Balls. After you ask your question and shake the 8-Ball, you read the answer in the little window. If you ever broke open a Magic 8-Ball with a hammer, you discovered that it contained a many-sided plastic object, with an answer on every facet, floating in a cylinder of murky blue fluid. The many-sided core held the answer to your question. My theory is that, as with our children, as with every surface of that geodesic dome inside the 8-Ball, every age we've ever been is who we are.

  Anne Lamott

  Children, Blue, Magic

  Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.64, Penguin

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• Let's not pretend that mental phenomena can be mapped on to the characteristics of billiard balls.

  Gregory Bateson

  Characteristics

  Gregory Bateson, Mary Catherine Bateson (1987). “Angels fear: towards an epistemology of the sacred”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• Were a stranger to drop on a sudden into this world, I would show him, as a specimen of its ills, a hospital full of diseases, a prison crowded with malefactors and debtors, a field of battle strewed with carcasses, a fleet foundering in the ocean, a nation languishing under tyranny, famine, or pestilence. To turn the gay side of life to him, and give him a notion of its pleasures; whither should I conduct him? to a ball, to an opera, to court? He might justly think, that I was only showing him a diversity of distress and sorrow.

  David Hume

  Ocean, Gay, Thinking

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.4068, Delphi Classics

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• If Playboy ever loses its editorial balls, then it will deserve to be knocked over by a younger, more vigorous magazine in the coming generation. But that won't happen so long as I'm alive, I can promise you that.

  Hugh Hefner

  Long, Promise, Generations

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• Baseball is a universal language. Catch the ball, throw the ball, hit the ball.

  Pete Rose

  Baseball, Language, Universal

  Pete Rose, Rick Hill (2004). “My Prison Without Bars”, p.40, Rodale

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• Hitting. That's what I enjoy most. Realistically, it's probably the hardest thing to do in all of sport. Think about it. You've got a round ball, a round bat, and the object is to hit it square.

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Thinking, Squares

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• Strictures, reproaches, and intemperate speeches from the Senator of Louisiana are really the wailings of an apostle of despair; he has lost control of himself, he is trying to play billiards with elliptical billiard balls and a spiral cue.

  Huey Long

  Play, Despair, Trying

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• I want to do roles that are fun and challenging and I want to try different things. I don't want to keep doing Monster's Ball over and over and over again. I want to keep doing my career the way that I was doing it before I won the Oscar.

  Halle Berry

  Fun, Careers, Challenges

  "Berry Dares to Leave Drama Queen Behind Her". The Courier-Post, April 15, 2007.

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• I was a kid who loved to play games. Any kind of game, any kind of ball. Give me a baseball, give me a basketball, give me something I can bounce and throw.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Basketball, Baseball, Kids

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• [Boxed] Multiple bouncing balls in a box are a metaphor for community. Notice how the escaping balls explode. This is what happens to people who move from Perl to Ruby.

  Larry Wall

  Moving, Escaping, People

  "The State of the Onion". www.perl.com. August 19, 2004.

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• The flesh is sweeter, where the creature has some chance for its life; for that reason, I always use a single ball, even if it be at a bird or a squirrel; besides, it saves lead, for, when a body knows how to shoot, one piece of lead is enough for all, except hard-lived animals.

  James F. Cooper

  Hunting, Animal, Squirrels

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• Zidane is unique. The ball flows with him. He is more like a dancer than a football player.

  Zinedine Zidane

  Football, Unique, Player

  Beckenbauer: Zidane es incomparable, www.emol.com. 2003.

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• Reading scripts is actually quite a relaxing part of the job. Strangely relaxing. This is a whole different ball game.

  Jack O'Connell

  Jobs, Reading, Games

  Source: collider.com

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• In order to play some sports there's quite a big cost implication, whereas football is relatively cheap. All you need is a ball and a couple of jumpers to practise.

  Hope Powell

  Sports, Football, Couple

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• The best have the courage and I say this all the time. The courage to take the ball all the time, the courage to make sure that they are not going to be intimidated by their opponents, and the courage to express themselves at all times and I think that all the great players have got that.

  Alex Ferguson

  Player, Thinking, Opponents

  Interview with Charlie Rose, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. March 10, 2013.

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• I usually am accused of having a crystal ball into which I can gaze and look into the future.

  Gerald Seymour

  Crystals, Looks, Accused

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• You don't wear pants that tight unless you got balls.

  Seth Green

  Pants

  "Seth Green, Geoff Johns, and More Talk ROBOT CHICKEN: VILLAINS IN PARADISE DC Comics Special". Interview with Tommy Cook, collider.com. April 5, 2014.

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• I love goofing around, and I love breaking people's balls. I do it off camera, as well as on camera.

  Vinnie Jones

  People, Cameras, Goofing Around

  Source: collider.com

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• Playing on turf affects everything, you know, it affects the way the ball rolls, it affects the way the ball bounces, it affects the way you think about whether or not going into a slide. It's kind of a nightmare.

  Abby Wambach

  Thinking, Way, Slides

  Source: www.npr.org

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