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• When I was a teenager and my brother Frank was in the World Series in '57 and '58 against the Yankees, Braves winning in '57 and the Yankees in '58, little did I know the next time these two teams would meet in the World Series, I would be managing the Yankees.

  Joe Torre

  Brother, Teenager, Team

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• I... recommend to every one of my Readers, the keeping a Journal of their Lives for one Week, and setting down punctually their whole Series of Employments during that Space of Time. This kind of Self-Examination would give them a true State of themselves, and incline them to consider seriously what they are about. One Day would rectifie the Omissions of another, and make a Man weigh all those indifferent Actions, which, though they are easily forgotten, must certainly be accounted for.

  Joseph Addison

  Men, Space, Omission

  Joseph Addison (1804). “The works of ... Joseph Addison, collected by mr. Tickell”, p.271

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• Fate stalks us with depressing monotony from womb to tomb, and, when we are least expecting it, deals us a series of crushing blows from behind.

  Hesketh Pearson

  Crush, Depressing, Fate

  Hesketh Pearson (1926). “The whispering gallery: being leaves from a diplomat's diary”

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• In addition, the United States Delegation will suggest a series of steps to improve the United Nations machinery for the peaceful settlement of disputes... - for extending the rule of international law. For peace is not solely a matter of military or technical problems - it is primarily a problem of politics and people.

  John F. Kennedy

  Military, Law, People

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 25 September 1961

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• It's never happened in the World Series competition, and it still hasn't.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Baseball, Competition

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• We're hoping that in three or four years time, we'll have to never have to answer another question regarding 'Star Wars,' ... With the series, we're trying to do 100 hours worth and answer every single thing anybody has ever dreamed of, thought of, imagined or hoped for.

  Rick McCallum

  Stars, War, Years

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• I turned my attention for a while to gamma ray astronomy and soon began the first in a continous series of experiments at the Savannah River site to study the properties of the neutrino.

  Frederick Reines

  Rivers, Rays, Attention

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• Life is but an endless series of experiments.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Endless, Experiments

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.66, Courier Corporation

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• The present moment is changing so fast that we often do not notice its existence at all. Every moment of mind is like a series of pictures passing through a projector. Some of the pictures come from sense impressions. Others come from memories of past experiences or from fantasies of the future.

  Henepola Gunaratana

  Memories, Past, Mind

  Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness: Walking the Buddha's Path”, p.194, Simon and Schuster

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• We human beings do have some genuine freedom of choice and therefore some effective control over our own destinies. I am not a determinist. But I also believe that the decisive choice is seldom the latest choice in the series. More often than not, it will turn out to be some choice made relatively far back in the past.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Freedom, Believe, Past

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• While it is undeniably true that people love a surprise, it is equally true that they are seldom pleased to suddenly and without warning happen upon a series of prunes in what they took to be a normal loin of pork.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Food, People, Pork

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.127, Vintage

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• Of course, it is possible for any citizen with time to spare, and a canny eye, to work out what is actually going on, but for the many there is not time, and the network news is the only news even though it may not be news at all but only a series of flashing fictions.

  Gore Vidal

  Eye, Media, Work Out

  Gore Vidal (1992). “The Decline and Fall of the American Empire”

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• After two years studying what rewrite men did with the facts I phoned them, I knew that journalism was essentially a task of stringing together seamlessly an endless series of cliches.

  Russell Baker

  Men, Years, Two

  Russell Baker (1984). “Growing Up”, Signet Book

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• Ah, yes, my social life — a series of encounters where we briefly debate who is in the greater rush.

  Robert Breault

  Encounters, Haste, Debate

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• Life is a series of family photos in which eventually you stop showing up.

  Robert Breault

  Showing Up, Life Is, Family Photo

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• Life is a series of family photos in which you keep moving to the rear until finally you're a portrait in the background.

  Robert Breault

  Moving, Portraits, Life Is

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• Life is a series of tasks that you absolutely must get done before they don't matter any more.

  Robert Breault

  Perspective, Done, Matter

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• A budget is more than just a series of numbers on a page; it is an embodiment of our values.

  Barack Obama

  Numbers, Embodiment, Pages

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• The trouble with a series as it gets older is it can feel like a tradition, and tradition is the enemy of suspense, and it's the enemy of comedy. It's the enemy of everything, really. So you have to shake it up.

  Steven Moffat

  Enemy, Suspense, Comedy

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• Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only end in an indefinite series of abortive efforts. Defeated by the utter want of proportion between the means and the end, such attempts might produce martyrs, but never lead to victory.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Faith, Mean, Effort

  Giuseppe Mazzini (2005). “The Duties of Man and Other Essays”, p.165, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Sorrow, Age, Ledges

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• Parenthood is an endless series of small events, periodic conflicts, and sudden crises which call for a response. The response is not without consequence: it affects personality for better or for worse.

  Haim Ginott

  Personality, Parent, Events

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• What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors.

  James A. Baldwin

  America, Identity, Heroic

  "For the Love of God — and Country" by Bryan Berghoef, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 27, 2013.

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• One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors.

  Robert Graves

  Heart, Color, Different

  "Soul Rays: Discover the Vibratory Frequency of Your Soul". Book by Candia L Sanders, p. 19, 2013.

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• Art must take reality by surprise. It takes those moments which are for us merely a moment, plus a moment, plus another moment, and arbitrarily transforms them into a special series of moments held together by a major emotion.

  Francoise Sagan

  Art, Reality, Special

  "Françoise Sagan, The Art of Fiction No. 15". Interview with Blair Fuller and Robert B. Silvers, www.theparisreview.org. Autumn 1956.

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