Courses Quotes - Page 23

In life's brief game to be a winner
A man must have...oh yes, above
All else, of course, someone to love.

Vikram Seth

Men, Games, Winner

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A beard on a man is only a way of hiding something, his face of course, but also the inner matters, like a hedge around a secret garden, or a cover over a bird cage.

Sebastian Barry

Men, Garden, Hiding Something

Sebastian Barry (2008). “The Secret Scripture”, p.84, Faber & Faber

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Death does not trouble me. I have no fear of supernatural punishments, of course, nor could I enjoy an eternal life in which there would be nothing left for me to do, the task of living having been accomplished.

B. F. Skinner

Education, Punishment, Doe

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Any single historical event is too complex to be adequately known by anyone. It transcends all the intellectual capacities of men. Our practice is to wait until a sufficient number of details have been forgotten. Of course things seem simpler then! Our memories work that way; we retain the facts which are easiest to think about.

B. F. Skinner

Memories, Men, Thinking

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It's possible that I shall make an ass of myself. But in that case one can always get out of it with a little dialectic. I have, of course, so worded my proposition as to be right either way.

Karl Marx

Littles, Way, Ass

Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1983). “Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: collected works”

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The absence of romance from my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest; but if it be judged useful by those inquirers who desire an exact knowledge of the past as an aid to the interpretation of the future, which in the course of human things must resemble if it does not reflect it, I shall be content. In fine, I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time.

Thucydides

Winning, Past, Romance

History of the Peloponnesian War bk. 1, ch. 1

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That was...that was choking. You're right. But of course when you play against (Roger) Federer, he's No. 1 in the world, he won three grand slams last year, and he's just full of confidence. It's difficult to do anything regular to beat him. You have to do something extra to be able to have the chance to beat him. Set points, I had six of them and I couldn't take one. But I was close.

Marat Safin

Years, Play, Three

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The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. Each side should know that frequently uncertainty, compromise, and incoherence are the essence of policymaking. Yet each tends to ascribe to the other a consistency, foresight, and coherence that its own experience belies. Of course, over time, even two armed blind men can do enormous damage to each other, not to speak of the room.

Henry A. Kissinger

Believe, Men, Essence

"The White House Years". Book by Henry Kissinger, 1979.

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The human heart, as of course we all know is essentially good

Charles Bukowski

Heart, Humans, Knows

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As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of the science. Whenever any result is sought by its aid, the question will then arise — by what course of calculation can these results be arrived at by the machine in the shortest time?

Charles Babbage

Machines, Aids, Guides

Charles Babbage, Philip Morrison, Emily Morrison (1961). “Charles Babbage on the Principles and Development of the Calculator: And Other Seminal Writings”, p.69, Courier Corporation

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Only some radical change can divert the downward course of my spirit, some startling new place or people to arrest the drift, the drag.

Tennessee Williams

People, Radical Change, Spirit

Tennessee Williams, Margaret Bradham Thornton (2006). “Notebooks”, p.15, Yale University Press

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The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the word, the accent, a new articulation, renew them.

Eugene Ionesco

Writing, Use, Tribes

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Not to mention the fact that of course terrorists hate freedom. I think they do hate. But believe me, I don't think they sit there abstractly hating freedom.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Hate, Believe, Thinking

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Though essaying but a sportive sail, I was driven from my course by a blast re sistless; and ill-provided, young, and bowed by the brunt of things before my prime, still fly before the gale. ... If after all these fearful fainting trances, the verdict be, the golden haven was not gained; yet in bold quest thereof, better to sink in boundless deeps than float on vulgar shoals; and give me, ye gods, an utter wreck, if wreck I do.

Herman Melville

Giving, Quests, Wrecks

Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.4644, Delphi Classics

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No, you sort of have to put that out of your mind. There's always a possibility that you can have a catastrophic failure, of course. This can happen on any flight. It can happen on the last one as well as the first one. You just plan as best you can to take care of all these eventualities, and you get a well-trained crew, and you go fly.

Gus Grissom

Mind, Care, Lasts

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Braniac dumb-dumbs, bust the scientifical,
Approach to the course and the force is centrifugal.
Can you find your way through the lyrics that be catchin' 'em?
Throw another rhyme across the room, they be fetchin' 'em.

Masta Ace

Rap, Hip Hop, Dumb

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Shoot eagles on the Jack Nicklaus course, Porsche with the triple exhaust, Seats soft like a midget's cough.

Action Bronson

Rap, Eagles, Hip Hop

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I view the relationship with Canada as a vital relationship for the United States. The relationship, of course, is defined government-to-government. It's also defined people-to-people, and there's a lot of people in my country who respect Canada and have great relations with Canadians, and we intend to keep it that way.

George W. Bush

Country, Government, Views

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May it not suffice for me to say ... that of course like every other man of intelligence and education I do believe in organic evolution. It surprises me that at this late date such questions should be raised.

Woodrow Wilson

Believe, Men, Presidential

Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1993). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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Sometimes things work out on the golf course and sometimes they don't. Life will go on. You try to understand what happens, but maybe today I don't want to know. I just screwed up so maybe I should just put it behind me.

Greg Norman

Mistake, Golf, Work Out

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Of course I believe in free enterprise but in my system of free enterprise, the democratic principle is that there never was, never has been, never will be, room for the ruthless exploitation of the many for the benefit of the few.

Harry S. Truman

Believe, Political, Principles

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There's not a yes or no answer to that. We want to prepare as a team to be as good as we can be out of the gate. If two months into the season or when Roger makes a decision to come to Arlington, I'd love to sit down with Buck and decide whose spot he takes. In reality so much happens during the course of the season, I don't see it as a problem.

Jon Daniels

Team, Reality, Two

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Look, I'm an immigrant, so I know what it is like to dream about coming to America and then to get here and be able to make your dreams a reality, ... Of course, there are millions of people who want to come here. Let's help them, let's find a legal way t

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Dream, Reality, America

"Schwarzenegger Opposes Amnesty for Illegal Immigrants", www.foxnews.com. October 26, 2005.

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My reaction to a lot of the current situation that we're in is based in part on a serious concern that the present administration's course ignores reality.

Vinton Cerf

Reality, Administration, Serious

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If it wasn't a chaotic scene, if it was an orderly evacuation, we would be able to give you specifics about what our preferences would be, such as evacuating first the disabled, then the elderly and infants. That would of course be our preference. But the reality on the scene does not permit that. We're going to do the best we can with the resources we have.

David Catania

Reality, Elderly, Giving

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