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• When . . . in the course of all these thousands of years has man ever acted in accordance with his own interests?

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Years, Interest

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky”, p.111, Modern Library

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• Try to be mindful, and let things take their natural course. Then your mind will become still in any surroundings, like a clear forest pool. All kinds of wonderful, rare animals will come to drink at the pool, and you will clearly see the nature of all things. You will see many strange and wonderful things come and go, but you will be still. This is the happiness of the Buddha.

  Ajahn Chah

  Animal, Mind, Trying

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• I write to please myself—of course, that is a given. But beyond this reach for pleasure, I know that I write for my countrymen, that they may be lifted from apathy and ignorance. I write because of a compulsion to make something out of the nothing that is my own life.

  F. Sionil José

  Writing, Ignorance, Apathy

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• I have really enjoyed every minute I have spent in golf- above all, the many wonderful friends I have made. I have loved playing the game and practicing it. Whether my schedule for the following day called for a tournament round or merely a trip to the practice tee, the prospect that there was going to be golf in it made me feel privileged and extremely happy, and I couldn't wait for the sun to come up the next morning so that I could get out on the course again

  Ben Hogan

  Morning, Golf, Wonderful Friends

  Ben Hogan (1985). “Ben Hogan's Five Lessons: The Modern Fundamentals of Golf”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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• If I had only one more round to play, I would choose to play it at Pebble Beach. I've loved this course from the first time I saw it. It's possibly the best in the world.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Beach, Play, World

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• I've said many times before that Pebble Beach is a wonderful thinking-man's golf course. That is why it is such a great U.S. Open venue.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Beach, Golf, Men

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• I was never too interested in high school. I mean, I never went to a dance, I never went out on a date, I never went steady. It became pretty awful for me. Except, of course, I could go see bands, and that was the kick. I used to go to Cleveland just to see any band. So I was in love a lot of the time, but mostly with guys in bands that I had never met. For me, knowing that Brian Jones was out there, and later that Iggy Pop was out there, made it kind of hard for me to get too interested in the guys that were around me. I had, uh, bigger things in mind.

  Chrissie Hynde

  School, Mean, Knowing

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• Throughout the entire course of history, warfare is always changing.

  Andre Beaufre

  Warfare

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• We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.

  J. B. Priestley

  Fire, Order, Sound

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• Let us take some event in the life of humanity. For instance, war. There is a war going on at the present moment. What does it signify? It signifies that several millions of sleeping people are trying to destroy several millions of other sleeping people. They would not do this, of course, if they were to wake up. Everything that takes place is owing to this sleep.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  War, Sleep, People

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• If, however, the success of a politician is to be measured by the degree in which he is able personally to influence the course of politics, and attach to himself a school of political thought, then Mr. Mill, in the best meaning of the words, has succeeded.

  Millicent Fawcett

  School, Political, Degrees

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• The flag of our stately battles, not struggles of wrath and greed,
  Its stripes were a holy lesson, its spangles a deathless creed:
  'T was red with the blood of freemen and white with the fear of the foe;
  And the stars that fight in their courses 'gainst tyrants its symbols know.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Stars, Struggle, Fighting

  Julia Ward Howe (1866). “Later Lyrics”, p.25

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• Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.

  Antonio Tabucchi

  Teacher, Views, Hygiene

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• I used to have this slight speech implement and couldn't remember things before I took the Sam Carnegie course.

  Bill Peterson

  Speech, Remember, Carnegie

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• Of course, I get angry. Of course, I get sad. I have a full range of emotions. I also have a whole smorgasbord of ways of dealing with my feelings. That is what we should give children. Give them ... ways to express their rage without hurting themselves or somebody else. That's what the world needs.

  Fred Rogers

  Hurt, Children, Giving

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• As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith is, always has been, and always will be, stronger than facts

  Francis Parker Yockey

  Views, Stronger, World

  Francis Parker Yockey (2013). “Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics”, p.100, The Palingenesis Project (Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group)

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• Of course I'm sure half the people there hate me and half the people like me

  Kevin Mitnick

  Hate, People, Half

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• The way we move within time is a kind of dance. We are always keeping time within one rhythm or another. Music, of course, is exemplary. One reason we love music so much is that it's so complete and the notes harmonize with one another in time to make a beautiful, ideal statement; not like our daily life where the rhythms are more subtle or hard to find or are constantly being interrupted or changed in ways that aren't so easy to handle.

  Mel Weitsman

  Beautiful, Moving, Way

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• Adults tend to repress their pleasure. Sad to say, I think we become adults only through disappointment, grief, and lies. So of course gradually we become tough, less sensitive.

  Jean Louis

  Disappointment, Lying, Grief

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• There is nothing more tragic than to come to the end of life and know we have been on the wrong course.

  Watchman Nee

  End Of Life, Ends, Tragic

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Normal Christian Life”, p.81, CLC Publications

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• The course is going to make you look silly sometimes. You have to be able to accept that and move on.

  Mike Weir

  Sports, Silly, Moving

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• This is not to say there are not Chicagoans. But I would suggest that they are a nomadic people, whose lost home exists only in their minds, and in the glowing crystal memory cells they all carry in the palms of their hands: a great idea of a second city, lit with life and love, reasonable drink prices at cool bars, and, of course, blocks and blocks of bright and devastating fire.

  John Hodgman

  Memories, Life And Love, Block

  John Hodgman (2012). “The Areas of My Expertise”, p.140, Penguin

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• Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.

  Ramakrishna

  Heart, Talking, Grace

  Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

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• Of course I voted for him. He wasn't a politician; he was a craze.

  Ewan McGregor

  Serious, Politician, Craze

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• Of course, there can be serious injustices within free societies.

  Natan Sharansky

  Serious, Injustice, Free Society

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