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• My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could.

  George Weinberg

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion.

  Tobias Wolff

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking care of course to keep within the limits of what seems permissible to the world), we shall find it hard to train for the service of Christ. When the flesh is satisfied it is hard to pray with cheerfulness or to devote oneself to a life of service which calls for much self-renunciation.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Thanksgiving, Self, Desire

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.115, SCM Press

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• Ive got a ton of stories about Chuck Knox, ... Over the course of my playing career, there was nobody that I learned to respect and appreciate more than I did Chuck Knox.

  Steve Largent

  Careers, Appreciate, Stories

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• Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith.

  Herbert Croly

  Patriotic, Enthusiasm, Monopoly

  Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.2, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Of course, the humans in Haiti have hope. They hope to leave.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Haiti, Having Hope, Humans

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.455, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• If libertarianism were easy to explain, and it weren't easy to exaggerate the effects of libertarianism, I think it would have been done already. Many many very intelligent people have applied themselves to crafting an agenda that people could grab ahold of. But the problem of course is that libertarianism isn't political. It is kind of anti-political. It wants to take a lot of things out of the political arena.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Intelligent, Thinking, People

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• There are many things in this life capable of throwing people off course - the death of someone close, the loss of income or health, the realisation that cherished hopes cannot always be fulfilled

  Beryl Bainbridge

  Loss, People, Income

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• Of course, music is an art form, and it's not all that competitive. But we don't ever intend to be the second-best band on a stage at any show.

  Tom Morello

  Art, Band, Second Best

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• I am not making spiteful assertions now but merely stating the facts-that, for instance, among Hungarian generals there is such a considerable percentage of men of German origin, who of course had, in most cases, to alter their names if they wanted to get anywhere.

  Heinrich Himmler

  Men, Names, Facts

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• Don't become weary in doing good. If we are patient, we can experience the change of heart we seek. For most of us this will require only a slight change of course, sending us toward the time north. The adjustments we must make are those 'small things', but that does not mean they are easy. Too many forces are confusing our compass. But the pull to the polar star is one we recognize. It is the direction toward home.

  Kathleen H. Hughes

  Stars, Mean, Home

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• Running gives freedom. When you run you can determine your own tempo. You can choose your own course and think whatever you want. Nobody tells you what to do.

  Nina Kuscsik

  Running, Thinking, Giving

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• Sometimes I do readings and people can’t stop laughing, but I’m reading about pretty tragic things. I think Soviet humor is a desperate humor, rather typical of very different nations, of Jewish people, Ukrainians, and of course, Russians. It’s despair - just keep laughing, until you are dead.

  Alina Bronsky

  Reading, Thinking, People

  "Hammer and Tickle". Interview with Stephen Heyman, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. April 16, 2011.

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• The whole punk scene is, of course, responsible for the Go-Go's ever getting created. Because before punk rock happened, you couldn't start a band if you didn't know how to play an instrument. But when punk happened it was like, 'Oh, it doesn't matter if you can play or not. Go ahead, make a band.' And that's exactly what the Go-Go's did.

  Jane Wiedlin

  Rocks, Play, Band

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• I had a map on my wall that had a circle around Lubbock and then giant arrows pointing toward New York City and Los Angeles. Written across both arrows were the words 'Toward Civilization.' Of course, by the time I got to New York, I realized there really isn't any civilization.

  Barry Corbin

  New York, Wall, Civilization

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• Of course, western is my native music.

  Ken Curtis

  Western, Native

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• There is no one correct way to bat, and so of course there is no one correct stance for it.

  Stan Musial

  Bats, Way, Stance

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• Israel demonstrated real hooliganism during the course of the recent operation, which I demanded.

  Tzipi Livni

  Real, Israel, Operations

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• People say, well, do you ever hear any other voices other than, like, a few people? Of course I do.

  George W. Bush

  Voice, People, Wells

  "President Bush Addresses the American Enterprise Institute". georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. December 18, 2008.

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• There are some similarities, of course (between Iraq and Vietnam). Death is terrible.

  George W. Bush

  Iraq, Vietnam, Terrible

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• In the long run, Women's Liberation will of course free men-but in the short run it's going to COST men a lot of privilege, which no one gives up willingly or easily.

  Robin Morgan

  Running, Giving Up, Men

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches”, p.39, Open Road Media

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• Of course, I continue to play and to practice. I think I would do so if I lived for another hundred years.

  Pablo Casals

  Thinking, Years, Practice

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• Anger should be especially kept down in punishing, because he who comes to punishment in wrath will never hold that middle course which lies between the too much and the too little. It is also true that it would be desirable that they who hold the office of Judges should be like the laws, which approach punishment not in a spirit of anger but in one of equity.

  Johannes Voet

  Lying, Anger, Law

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• If zoos are like arks, then rare animals are like passengers on a voyage of the damned, never to find a port that will let them dock or a land in which they can live in peace. The real solution, of course, is to preserve the wild nature that created these animals and has the power to sustain them. But if it is really true that we are inevitably moving towards a world in which mountain gorillas can survive only in zoos, then we must ask whether it is really better for them to live in artificial environments of our design than not to be born at all.

  Peter Singer

  Zoos, Real, Moving

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• Of course, this is the season to be jolly, but it is also a good time to be thinking about those who aren't.

  Helen Valentine

  Christmas, Thinking, Good Times

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