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Stephen Leacock Quotes

Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.

Stephen Leacock

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: economist
Nationality: canadian
Birth: December 30, 1869 - March 28, 1944

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Effort Law Game Golf View Sunday

I was a really bad taxi driver. I only collided twice but it was one time too much.

Time Bad Too Much Taxi Twice Driver

Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will.

John D. MacDonald

Change Integrity Man Yourself Wind

Eviction is much more an inevitability than a result of irresponsibility.

Matthew Desmond

Result More Than Much Inevitability

Despite a campaign that was based on a very powerful promise of transparency, President Obama, and again in my view quite correctly, has used the state secrets argument in a variety of courts, as much as President Bush.

View Powerful Secrets Transparency

I was a workaholic, I had food issues, and I had body issues. I was in a lot of pain. My parents didn't recognise what was going on.

Amanda de Cadenet

Food Pain Parents Body Going Issues

I was never a strikeout pitcher. Why should I throw eight or nine balls to get a man out when I got away with three or four?

Man Three Why Never Balls Out

Stalin, of course, never went on trial, but his legacy did. In 1956, three years after his death, he was denounced by Nikita Khrushchev. And his crimes were even more explicitly exposed by Mikhail Gorbachev during the late '80s. Yet to many, Stalin remains more legitimate as a Russian leader than anyone since.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

Leader Death Legacy Late Three More

You can tell when someone is just trying to use you. It becomes just someone who's hanging around. Whenever someone sucks up to me, it never goes anywhere because I'm too boring a guy.

Me Someone Trying You Boring Never

If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.

Wisdom You Resume Experiments Call

Some Marine units actually use 'An Officer and a Gentleman' in their training programs.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

Training Gentleman Some Use Actually

I'm afraid there are no magical tips. There is no secret. Writing is all about telling stories as well as you can.

Writing You Secret Afraid Magical

I feel what I sing, and I sing what I feel. Really, that's all I can do.

Feel I Can Sing I Feel Really

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