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• To me the director’s job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Jobs, Directors, Shapes

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• I cannot, if I am in the field of glory, be kept out of sight: wherever there is anything to be done, there Providence is sure to direct my steps.

  Horatio Nelson

  Sight, Done, Fields

  Horatio Nelson, Nicholas Harris Nicolas (2011). “The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson”, p.230, Cambridge University Press

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• The will to believe chases out the rational mind, whenever and wherever the two come into conflict.

  Philip K. Dick

  Believe, Two, Mind

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The Transmigration of Timothy Archer”, p.103, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Just death, kind umpire of men's miseries.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Men, Misery

  William Shakespeare (1790). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: King Henry VI, part first. King Henry VI, part second. King Henry VI, part third. A dissertation on the three parts of King Henry VI. King Richard III. Vol. 6”, p.46

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• Never wear a backward baseball cap to an interview unless applying for the job of umpire.

  Casey Stengel

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.

  Maximilien Robespierre

  People, Evil, Doe

  'Dèclaration des droits de l'homme' 24 April 1793, article 25

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• I didn't know a damn thing about style.

  Michael Bergin

  Style, Damn, Knows

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• Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.

  Larry Holmes

  Fighting, Doctors, Judging

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• To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.

  Major Taylor

  Success, Track, Degrees

  Major Taylor (1928). “The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography”

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• There are clear cases in which "understanding" literally applies and clear cases in which it does not apply; and these two sorts of cases are all I need for this argument.

  John Searle

  Two, Understanding, Doe

  "Minds, Brains and Programs". John Searle, "Behavioral and Brain Sciences", Volume 3, No. 3, 1980.

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• I recoil with horror at the ferociousness of man. Will nations never devise a more rational umpire of differences than force? Are there no means of coercing injustice more gratifying to our nature than a waste of the blood of thousands and of the labor of millions of our fellow creatures?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Mean, Men, Blood

  Thomas Jefferson, Barbara B. Oberg, Lyman Henry Butterfield, Charles T. Cullen, John Catanzariti (2003). “The papers of Thomas Jefferson: 1 January 1798 to 31 January 1799”, Princeton Univ Pr

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• The best recommendation for an umpire in the old days was: "He licked somebody in the Three-I League. He ought to do.

  Ty Cobb

  League, Three, Recommendations

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• Somethin' like four thousand bottles have been thrown at me in my day but only about twenty ever hit me. That does not speak very well for the accuracy of the fans' throwing.

  Harry Gordon Johnson

  Twenties, Fans, Doe

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• Listen, ump. How can you sleep with the lights on?

  Amos Otis

  Sleep, Light

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• The problem with art is, it's not like the game of golf where you put the ball in the hole. There's no umpire; there's no judge. There are no rules. It's one of its problems. But it's also one of the great things about art. It becomes a question of what lasts.

  Richard Prince

  Art, Golf, Games

  Rosetta Brooks, Richard Prince, Jeffrey Rian, Luc Sante (2003). “Richard Prince”, Phaidon Press

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• It is rather suitable for umpires to dress like dentists, since one of their tasks is to draw stumps.

  John Arlott

  Dresses, Tasks, Dentist

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• Those who are esteemed umpires of taste, are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, andhave an inclination for whatever is elegant; but if you inquire whether they are beautiful souls, and whether their own acts are like fair pictures, you learn that they are selfish and sensual. Their cultivation is local, as if you should rub a log of dry wood in one spot to produce fire, all the rest remaining cold.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Selfish, Fire

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.185, Penguin

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• I want to stress again one aspect of the game which is most important. Never argue with an umpire.

  Ian Botham

  Stress, Games, Important

  1980 Ian Botham on Cricket.

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• In my dealing with my child, my Latin and Greek, my accomplishments and my money stead me nothing; but as much soul as I have avails. If I am wilful, he sets his will against mine, one for one, and leaves me, if I please, the degradation of beating him by my superiority of strength. But if I renounce my will, and act for the soul, setting that up as umpire between us two, out of his young eyes looks the same soul; he reveres and loves with me.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Children, Latin, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.168, Penguin

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• A good umpire is the umpire you don't even notice. He's there all afternoon but when the game is over, you don't even remember his name.

  Ban Johnson

  Games, Names, Over You

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• Somebody has to keep score and I decided I was going to do it. I'm a born score-keeper and I realize, like an umpire, that my decisions may cause distress.

  Gore Vidal

  Decision, Causes, May

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You can do anything, really. And that, l think, is one of the exciting possibilities of the present, l swear, is the possibility that the goddamn thing can be modaled throughout.

  Charles Olson

  Possibility, Exciting, Can Do

  "Muthologos: the collected lectures & interviews".

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• Then when I reached college, I realized that many people had thought about the problem during the 18th and 19th centuries and so I studied those methods.

  Andrew Wiles

  College, People, Problem

  "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. November 1, 2000.

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• Mr. Speaker, we have reached a point in history where some have forgotten that it is the family, not the government, that is the fundamental building block of our society.

  Jim Ryun

  Block, Government, Fundamentals

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• Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can.

  Sue Grafton

  Book, Writing, Focus

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