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“The outstanding coach is a teacher that gets all his squad to accept the role that he considers to be the most important for the welfare of all.”
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“I think some modesty actually serves me by just accepting that I am an instrument. I'm not trying to match up to an ideal as some kind of challenge. It's more like I use the family tree of music and song that I feel has fit me as an encouragement; like it's a bed to rest in rather than a challenge to try to better myself over, to try to.”
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“The editor sat in his sanctum, his countenance furrowed with care, His mind at the bottom of business, his feet at the top of a chair, His chair-arm an elbow supporting, his right hand upholding his head, His eyes on his dusty old table, with different documents spread.”
Source : Will Carleton (1873). “Farm Ballads”, p.127
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“There is honor in being a dog.”
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“We frequently define an acid or a base as a substance whose aqueous solution gives, respectively, a higher concentration of hydrogen ion or of hydroxide ion than that furnished by pure water. This is a very one sided definition.”
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“I always wanted to find oil. It was always an irresistible calling.”
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“I have fun with my clothes onstage; it's not a concert you're seeing, it's a fashion show.”
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“There was a time when intellectual meant someone who uses reason and intellect. Today, people who call themselves intellectuals are in a form of mental death spiral: they search for, and find, those index cards that support their world view, and clutch little red books like rosaries in the face of all external evidence. They are ruled by appeals to authority. Their self-image and sense of emotional well-being trumps any and all objective evidence to the contrary.”
Source : "Rafts". Introduction by Bill Whittle to his book "An American Civilization", web.archive.org. June 18, 2006.