All great civilizations, in their early stages, are based on success in war.
Kenneth Clark
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You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.
Jim Bouton
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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
St. Jerome
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Mandates are rarely won on election night. They are earned after Inauguration Day by leaders who spend their political capital wisely, taking advantage of events without overreaching.
Ron Fournier
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I never went to a John Wayne movie to find a philosophy to live by or to absorb a profound message. I went for the simple pleasure of spending a couple of hours seeing the bad guys lose.
Mike Royko
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Sitting down for dinner not only helps you learn, but also teaches you how to listen - which I feel is the most important skill to have. I remember as a kid going around the table listening to everyone's day. It was hard to have the manners not to interrupt back then.
Michael Symon
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I was a little, skinny, runt kid, and I decided that bowling was what I was going to do in life.
Don Johnson
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I like to have a home for people just to have a lot of fun.
Chelsea Handler
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The Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice should take a long, hard look at the standard publishing contract.
Thomas Hauser
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I was a catastrophe at Science and Games, but the good thing about Quaker schools is that they encourage you in those subjects for which you show an aptitude.
Richard Rodney Bennett
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I have a vision for what I want wrestling to be, and I was fortunate not just to have the opportunity to show my talents at the right time, and not just to have the right opponents, and not just to have the knowledge that the front office has faith in me, but also the good fortune not to get hurt in the middle of all this.
Kenny Omega
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I think that three-act fundamentalism in film culture is a problem sometimes, because it's almost too obvious, or it's too expected. And it's not the only way to fill two hours, or to phrase things, or to order thoughts, or order ideas.
Jane Campion
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Not only do we need more women in the technology sector, we also clearly need to refocus energy on improving gender equality in the global economy.
Gillian Tans
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