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Invariably something happens at a U.S. Open where the golf course gets out of control one day, they have one pin that's out of control. It always seems to happen. But they've gotten better about the height of the rough.

Payne Stewart

Sports, Golf, One Day

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Sometimes we feel that one individual's action is very insignificant. Then we think, of course, that effects should come from channeling or from a unifying movement. But the movement of the society, community or group of people means joining individuals. Society means a collection of individuals, so that initiative must come from individuals. Unless each individual develops a sense of responsibility, the whole community cannot move. So therefore, it is very essential that we should not feel that individual effort is meaningless- you should not feel that way. We should make an effort.

Dalai Lama

Moving, Mean, Responsibility

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Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.

Dalai Lama

People, Acting, Human Nature

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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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Of course there are dozens of meditation techniques, but it all comes down to this - just let it all be. Step over here where it is cool, out of the battle. Why not give it a try?

Ajahn Chah

Giving, Meditation, Battle

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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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I never went into a tournament or round of golf thinking I had to beat a certain player. I had to beat the golf course. If I prepared myself for a major, went in focused, and then beat the golf course, the rest took care of itself.

Jack Nicklaus

Golf, Player, Thinking

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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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The United Nations cannot do anything, and never could; it is not an animate entity or agent. It is a place, a stage, a forum and a shrine... a place to which powerful people can repair when they are fearful about the course on which their own rhetoric seems to be propelling them.

Conor Cruise O'Brien

Powerful, People, Agents

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

Andre Beaufre

Warfare

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And then there's the personal question so many of Lassie's fans want to ask: Is he allowed on the furniture? Of course he is-but, then, he's the one who paid for it.

Julia Glass

Dog, Training, Personal Question

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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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Now, should we treat women as independent agents, responsible for themselves? Of course. But being responsible has nothing to do with being raped. Women don’t get raped because they were drinking or took drugs. Women do not get raped because they weren’t careful enough. Women get raped because someone raped them.

Jessica Valenti

Drinking, Independent, Drug

Jessica Valenti (2009). “The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women”, p.151, Seal Press

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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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Of course, the strippers also take pains not to appear too innocent, valorous, or bookishly inclined. (In direct opposition to the Swayze Mandate of 1987, everybody puts Baby in a goddamn corner.)

Diablo Cody

Baby, Pain, Innocent

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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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Run your own race at an even pace. Consider the course, the temperature, the weather, and most importantly, your current level of fitness.

Marty Liquori

Running, Race, Weather

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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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I go into the locker room and find a corner and just sit there. I try to achieve a peaceful state of nothingness that will carry over onto the golf course. If I can get that feeling of quiet and obliviousness within myself, I feel I can't lose.

Jane Blalock

Golf, Peaceful, Feelings

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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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H. L. Mencken famously said that 'every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.' By now, however, I am no longer ashamed, because I do not identify with the government under which I live. Rather, I view it as a criminal organization that without provocation has chosen to make war on my just rights-not only mine, of course, but everyone's. Although this vile enterprise is my problem, because it robs and bullies me relentlessly and without mercy, it is not my responsibility: the nail is not the hammer.

Robert Higgs

War, Responsibility, Men

Robert Higgs (2007). “Neither Liberty Nor Safety: Fear, Ideology, and the Growth of Government”, Independent Inst

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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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A lot of my buddies also played golf, but when it came to going to the beach or on the boat and chasing girls, they usually went that way and I went to the golf course.

Mike Weir

Girl, Sports, Beach

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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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I know Wikipedia is very cool. A lot of people do not think so, but of course they are wrong.

Larry Sanger

Thinking, People, Wikipedia

"Why Wikipedia Must Jettison Its Anti-Elitism". Personal Website, larrysanger.org. December 31, 2004.

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