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• Never worry about missing a field goal. Just blame the holder and think about making the next one.

  Lou Groza

  Thinking, Goal, Worry

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• My Mama Moved Among the Days My Mama moved among the days like a dreamwalker in a field; seemed like what she touched was here seemed like what touched her couldn't hold, she got us almost through the high grass then seemed like she turned around and ran right back in right back on in

  Lucille Clifton

  Dream, Mama, Grass

  Lucille Clifton, “My Mama Moved Among The Days”

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• The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress.

  Beth Henley

  Dog, School, College

  Interview with Jackson R. Bryer, www.encyclopedia.com. 2005.

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• To supply people for ages in camps makes no sense... you have to rebuild that cabana that they rent out to tourists on the weekend. They need help getting their fields repaired and their boats repaired.

  Sam Worthington

  Weekend, People, Age

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• How did Don Jackson influence the field of family therapy? How did Watts influence the steam engine? He made it. Others have refined the steam engine into a better, more efficient machine. I'd say that is what Don did for family therapy, he established the discipline. Others have gone on to refine it.

  Richard Fisch

  Discipline, Gone, Machines

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• Human dignity can be achieved only in the field of ethics, and ethical achievement is measured by the degree in which our actions are governed by compassion and love, not by greed and aggressiveness.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Self Esteem, Compassion, Achievement

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• It's going to be crazy. I'm guessing when we play against the Dominicans, half the field will be Dominican fans and half will be Puerto Rican fans. With all the big-time players in the World Classic, it's going to be huge.

  Carlos Beltran

  Crazy, Player, Fans

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• One energy field. Our bodies have distracted us from our energy. We are the infinite field of unfolding possibilities. The creative force.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Law Of Attraction, Creative, Energy

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• Practitioners of SI do not feel ourselves to be therapists. The gravitational field is the therapist. What we do is prepare the body to receive the support from the gravitational field which gives a greater sense of well being.

  Ida Rolf

  Giving, Support, Body

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• If you play well on the field, everything will take care of itself.

  Derek Jeter

  Baseball, Play, Care

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• Anything that has been accomplished by any other human being in the physical realm is within the field of possibility.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Possibility, Abundance And Prosperity

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• A prediction, in a field where prediction is not possible, is no more than a prejudice.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Prejudice, Predictions

  "Most Likely To Succeed". www.newyorker.com. December 15, 2008.

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• I call Sally Field 'America's Mother!' She is incredible to watch.

  Matthew Rhys

  Mother, America, Watches

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Working in Hollywood does give one a certain expertise in the field of prostitution.

  Jane Fonda

  Giving, Hollywood, Doe

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Even in a crowded field, it is a rare pleasure to come across a prose stylist like Kellie Wells, whose intellect and language bid one another beautifully to a dance. She dares to be at play in the most unsettling questions of her day. Surely when the present generation of writers shakes down to its unique and irreplaceable voices, Kellie Wells will be one of them.

  Jaimy Gordon

  Unique, Play, Voice

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• The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation.

  Goldwin Smith

  Real, Humanity, Novelists

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

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• The Republican Party is bringing out here onto the floor of Congress an all-out assault on the protection of the rights of people who work in the fields of our country, in the factories of our country, in the offices of our country.

  Ed Markey

  Country, Party, Rights

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• To me, it was never about what I accomplished on the football field. It was about the way I played the game. I played the game with a lot of determination, a lot of poise, a lot of pride and I think what you saw out there...was an individual who really just loved the game.

  Jerry Rice

  Football, Determination, Pride

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• PALACE, n. A fine and costly residence, particularly that of a great official. The residence of a high dignitary of the Christian Church is called a palace; that of the Founder of his religion was known as a field, or wayside. There is progress.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Christian, Religion, Progress

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2476, Delphi Classics

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• I had forgotten what mustard fields looked like... Sheet upon sheet of blazing yellow, half way between sulphur and celandine, with hot golden sunshine pouring down upon them out of a dazzling June sky. It thrilled me like music.

  Monica Baldwin

  Sunshine, Sky, Yellow

  Monica Baldwin (2016). “I Leap Over The Wall - Contrasts And Impressions After Twenty-Eight Years In A Convent”, p.71, Read Books Ltd

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• Put your mouthful of words away and come with me to watch the lilies open in such a field, growing there like yachts, slowly steering their petals without nurses or clocks.

  Anne Sexton

  Nurse, Watches, Growing

  Anne Sexton (1964). “Selected poems”

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• My freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles. Whatever diminishes constraint diminishes strength. The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Meaningful, Freedom, Self

  Igor Stravinsky (1970). “Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons”, p.65, Harvard University Press

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• Chess strategy as such today is still in its diapers, despite Tarrasch's statement 'We live today in a beautiful time of progress in all fields'. Not even the slightest attempt has been made to explore and formulate the laws of chess strategy.

  Aron Nimzowitsch

  Beautiful, Law, Progress

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• Another thing he told his customers was that one of the great accounting unknowns of the modern age was how to value knowledge. It was an exciting field.

  Jane Smiley

  Assessment, Age, Modern

  Jane Smiley (1995). “Moo”, Knopf

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• Divine nature gave us fields, human skill built our cities. -Divina natura dedit agros, ars humana aedificavit urbes

  Marcus Terentius Varro

  Skills, Cities, Divinity

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