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Gene Tunney Quotes

I did six years of planning to win the championship from Jack Dempsey.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: May 25, 1897 - November 7, 1978

Topics

Win Planning Years Championship Six

No matter how dark or precarious it may seem, continue to pursue your truth.

Truth Dark Matter Pursue Seem May

The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been.

World Violence Always Been Threat

None of my friends really have Twitter. They mainly all have Facebook. I have Facebook too, but I like Twitter more.

Friends More Facebook Like None Too

Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.

Acceptance Understanding Way Mean

It's odd, because I used to see pictures, on telly or wherever, of what I now know to be Shaftesbury Avenue and I used to wonder what that amazing street with all the lights was. Well, now I know. I think when you get a wee taste of something, it maybe isn't what you thought it was.

Shirley Henderson

Amazing Think Thought You Pictures

I like to think we're all the sum of our experiences, so no one has my perspective.

Perspective Think Experiences Sum

Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media people, statesmen, critics, and the kind of people who write to presidents never expecting a reply.

People Writing Friends Media Pen

Most people are nostalgic in a way that they're fond of the past, but they still are happy that they are where they are now. You know, when you say, 'Oh, high school was this or that,' you don't want to go back. No matter how much you loved high school, you don't want to actually be back in high school. I certainly wouldn't.

Past School Happy People High School

When it comes to power as it functions between humans, it all comes down to desire. If you know what someone wants, you can control them. It is as simple as that. And the reverse is also true: If you have control over your own desires, no one will ever own you. As humans, we are plagued with desire - it consumes us, it fuels us, it destroys us.

Courtney A. Kemp

Power Simple Control Someone You

If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it?

Life Walk You Point Playing Paid

If I or my soldiers have plundered or done injury to the houses or ministers of religion, I repent me of my sin; but it is not of Edward of England I shall ask pardon.

William Wallace

Religion Me Sin Done Ask Soldiers

Some of those more out-there jokes were written in the wee hours of the morning. Somehow, they remained funny the next day.

Seth MacFarlane

Funny Morning Day More Next Jokes

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