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• The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Thinking, Vanity, Effort

  "The Real Problem in DC: Sportsmanship" by Michael Brick, www.esquire.com. October 11, 2013.

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• In the discharge of duties my guide will be the Constitution, which I this day swear to preserve, protect, and defend.

  Zachary Taylor

  Constitution, Guides, Duty

  John J. Farrell, Zachary Taylor, United States. President (1849-1850 : Taylor), United States. President (1850-1853 : Fillmore) (1971). “Zachary Taylor 1784-1850 [and] Millard Fillmore 1800-1874: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• In conclusion I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of Divine Providence has conducted our common country. Let us invoke a continuance of the same protecting care which has led us from small beginnings to the eminence we this day occupy

  Zachary Taylor

  Country, Citizens, Care

  John J. Farrell, Zachary Taylor, United States. President (1849-1850 : Taylor), United States. President (1850-1853 : Fillmore) (1971). “Zachary Taylor 1784-1850 [and] Millard Fillmore 1800-1874: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• I call God to record against the day we shall appear before our Lord Jesus, that I never altered one syllable of God's Word against my conscience, nor would do this day, if all that is in earth, whether it be honor, pleasure, or riches, might be given me.

  William Tyndale

  Jesus, Honor, Records

  "Foxe's Book of Martyrs". Book by John Foxe, March 20, 1563.

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• The search for a moral equivalent of war continues to define American liberalism to this day.

  Jonah Goldberg

  War, Moral, Liberalism

  Jonah Goldberg (2012). “The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas”, p.46, Penguin

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• They say it was Cesc Fabregas who threw the pizza at me but, to this day, I have no idea who the culprit was.

  Alex Ferguson

  Ideas, Culprit, Pizza

  "Alex Ferguson on THAT Manchester United vs Arsenal row: 'Next thing I knew there's pizza all over me'" by David McDonnell, www.mirror.co.uk. October 22, 2013.

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• I will live this day as if it is my last. …I will waste not a moment mourning yesterday’s misfortunes, Yesterday’s defeats, yesterday’s aches of the heart, for why should I throw good after bad?

  Og Mandino

  Heart, Yesterday, Mourning

  Og Mandino (2009). “The Greatest Secret in the World”, p.66, Bantam

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• Rounder Records decided to call the album Move It On Over, much to my chagrin but they knew what they were doing. It took off and to this day I can't figure out why.

  George Thorogood

  Moving, Albums, Records

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• To this day, I fondly recall the challenges of building a fire, pitching a tent, climbing a New England mountain, canoeing on a lake. Camp songs still resonate inside me. Competition exists at Keewaydin, of course, but nobody fails summer camp, a nice respite from winters of fortune and misfortune at school.

  Michael Eisner

  Summer, Song, Nice

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• To this day, I enjoy nature, the luxury of undisturbed wilderness, forests, mountains, lakes, rivers and deserts and their wildlife. But I also know that the greatest danger to their perpetuity is the pressure of human population.

  Norman Borlaug

  Lakes, Luxury, Rivers

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• The Talmud is to this day the circulating heart's blood of the Jewish religion. Whatever laws, customs or ceremonies we observe-whether we are orthodox, conservative, reform or merely spasmodic sentimentalists-we follow the Talmud. It is our common Law.

  Herman Wouk

  Heart, Blood, Law

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• When they [the Church] have opened a gap in the hedge or wall of separation between the garden of the church and the wilderness of the world, God hath ever broke down the wall itself, removed the Candlestick, etc., and made His Garden a wilderness as it is this day. And that therefore if He will ever please to restore His garden and Paradise again, it must of necessity be walled in peculiarly unto Himself from the world, and all that be saved out of the world are to be transplanted out of the wilderness of the World.

  Roger Williams

  Wall, Garden, Church

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• Love is God's loaf; and this is that feeding for which we are taught to pray, "Give us this day our daily bread."

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Religious, Love Is, Giving

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.33

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• I was devastated. I'm still devastated to this day. When talent like that disappears in a flash, you can't believe it. You deny it. Max Roach, who, of course, played with him on all those EmArcy recordings, held a concert in Baltimore for Clifford long after Clifford died. Max was still disbelieving so many years later. The concert was supposed to bring closure. But Max was so outrageously emotional that day. He had quite a few eruptions and was very emotional about what had happened so many years earlier. Like everyone, he remained disbelieving.

  Helen Merrill

  Music, Believe, Emotional

  "Helen Merrill (Part 3)". Interview with Marc Myers, www.jazzwax.com. February 4, 2009.

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• In 1908 Handy didn't know anything about the blues and he doesn't know anything about jazz and stomps to this day. I myself figured out the peculiar form of mathematics and harmonies that was strange to all the world but me.

  Jelly Roll Morton

  World, Peculiar, Strange

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• If you look at the media coverage and surfing magazines, the one thing that really stands out is how hard it is to find a photo of a girl in a magazine unless it's an ad. It's kind of strange, still to this day. You see these great looking girls surfing so well that are amazingly talented... They are finally the total package.

  Lisa Andersen

  Girl, Media, Surfing

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• Behold this day. It is yours to make.

  Black Elk

  Inspirational, Life, Inspirational Life

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• I have done so much for hip-hop and 'til this day, I haven't received any awards or any recognition for it.

  Luther Campbell

  Awards, Hip Hop, Done

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• Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day. If I succeed, I will give thanks. If I fail, I will seek his grace. And then, when this day is done, I will place my head on my pillow and rest.

  Max Lucado

  Kindness, Self, Giving

  Max Lucado (2015). “Let the Journey Begin: Finding God's Best for Your Life”, p.73, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Maybe the greatness we heard in [Richard Manuel]'s voice, that catch in it, came from all that pain. To this day, we don't really know.

  Levon Helm

  Pain, Greatness, Voice

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• You will find that you cannot do without politicians. They are a necessary evil in this day and time. You may not like getting money from one source and spending it for another. But the thing for the school people to do is that if the politicians are going to steal, make them steal for the schools.

  Huey Long

  School, People, Evil

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• There is no heaven of glory bright, and no hell where sinners roast. Here and now is our day of torment! Here and now is our day of joy! Here and now is our opportunity! Choose ye this day, this hour, for no redeemer liveth!

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Opportunity, Heaven, Joy

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• Thoughts of your mind have made you what you are and thoughts of your mind will make you what you become from this day forward.

  Catherine Ponder

  Mind, Made

  Catherine Ponder (2016). “The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity”, p.14, Lulu.com

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• I can feel that the world this day is different than all the days of our lives before.

  David O. Selznick

  Different, World, Feels

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• Dear Father, take this days life into Thine own keeping. Control all my thoughts and feelings. Direct all my energies. Instruct my mind. Sustain my will. Take my hands and make them skilful to serve Thee. Take my feet and make them swift to do Thy bidding. Take my eyes and keep them fixed upon Thine everlasting beauty. Take my mouth and make it eloquent in testimony to Thy love. Make this day a day of obedience, a day of spiritual joy and peace. Make this days work a little part of the work of the Kingdom of my Lord Christ, in whose name these my prayers are said. Amen.

  John Baillie

  Spiritual, Prayer, Father

  John Baillie (1952). “A diary of private prayer”, Scribner

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