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• Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Dirty, Book, Winning

  Joseph Brodsky (2011). “On Grief And Reason: Essays”, p.145, Penguin UK

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• You go out with a girl you used to date, she looks so damn good, and then at a certain point you say, Boy, now I remember. I know why I left!

  Arsenio Hall

  Girl, Boys, Looks

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• The trouble with me is that every match I play against five opponents: umpire, crowd, ball boys, court, and myself.

  Goran Ivanisevic

  Boys, Play, Tennis

  "The Joy of Six: great Wimbledon finals" by Scott Murray, Paul Doyle, Jacob Steinberg, www.theguardian.com. July 5, 2013.

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• When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting... every generation must start again afresh.

  Maurice de Vlaminck

  Hands, People, Giving

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• You can almost judge how screwed up somebody is by the kind of toilet paper they use. Go in any rich house and it's some weird coloured embossed stuff.

  Don Van Vliet

  Judging, House, Paper

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• That's what I think we're all looking for - an honest love wherever you can find it.

  Piper Perabo

  Thinking, Honest, Honest Love

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• When I was anorexic it just seemed like I literally wanted to disappear. And now I would like to reappear.

  Portia de Rossi

  Disappear, Wanted, Anorexics

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

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• Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.

  Hippocrates

  Art, Nursing, Medicine

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• Never judge a work of art by its defects.

  Washington Allston

  Art, Judging, Advice

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• Ed (Runge), you're the second best umpire in the league. The other twenty-three are tied for first.

  Carl Yastrzemski

  League, Twenties, Three

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• A fiancé is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.

  Anton Chekhov

  Engagement, Shore, Left

  "The Little Trilogy: The Man in a Case, Gooseberries, about Love". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1889.

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• Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.

  Brendan Behan

  Judging, Said, Joyce

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• Judge Roberts has assured me personally that he has a healthy respect for precedent and the hard-won rights of Americans.

  Max Baucus

  Rights, Judging, Healthy

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• We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.

  E. M. Forster

  Shadow, Room With A View, Darkness To Light

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.470, Delphi Classics

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• People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  People, Virtue, Economy

  The Guardian, May 23, 1992.

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• It was only literally hours after the wedding when he felt he didn't have to keep up the facade.

  Trisha Goddard

  Wedding, Hours, Facade

  "Secrets and lives". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. March 23, 2003.

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• I assure you that the training that you get in a midget, in a sprint car and perhaps in a Silver Crown car is really the kind of experience that makes you into a damn good race driver.

  Rodger Ward

  Race, Car, Training

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• I remember once in high school the umpire called me out at third base when I was sure I was safe. I got so mad I took out my glass eye, handed it to him and said, 'Try this.' I got such a laugh you wouldn't believe.

  Peter Falk

  Believe, School, Eye

  "'Columbo': Peter Falk Dies at 83; Farewell Lieutenant" by Trevor Kimball, tvseriesfinale.com. June 24, 2011.

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• Everybody thinks I'm at death's door, but I'm not. There's nothing seriously wrong with me, and my heart is in 100 percent working order. Anything else you may hear is a damn lie!

  Bobby Darin

  Lying, Heart, Thinking

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• Screw them. Yeah. But not literally. I'm not advocating promiscuity.

  Mark Hoppus

  Advocating, Yeah, Screws

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• The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Men, Worry, Soul

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• One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.

  Billie Holiday

  Song, One Day, Damn

  Billie Holiday, William Dufty (2011). “Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography”, p.108, Broadway Books

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• No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.

  Matthew Henry

  Holiness, Attributes, Sinner

  Thomas Scott, Matthew Henry (1847). “Psalm LXIV-Malachi”

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• The courtroom is a quiet place, Judge Roberts, where you park your political ideology, and you call the balls and you call the strikes.

  Lindsey Graham

  Judging, Political, Parks

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• Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

  Margaret Atwood

  Prayer, Justice, Might

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