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“We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order...”
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“Don't sell yourself short because without that you can't go far in life because after sports the only thing you know is sports and you can't do anything else with that.”
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“There are compensations for growing older. One is the realization that to be sporting isn't at all necessary. It is a great relief to reach this stage of wisdom.”
Source : Cornelia Otis Skinner (1938). “Dithers and Jitters”
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“Human beings thrive on action. Stagnation does not wear well with us. We are said to have our origins as hunter-gatherers. We run and we chase. We are problem-solvers. We must be continuously tested and we continuously test ourselves. And it will not end until our lives end because of life itself.”
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“It is the members of this business elite . . . that pose the greatest danger to our American way of life. They are the ones who've bought and paid for members of both political parties. . . .”
Source : Lou Dobbs (2006). “War on the Middle Class: How the Government, Big Business, and Special Interest Groups Are Waging War ont he American Dream and How to Fight Back”, p.29, Penguin
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“Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.”
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“Marching thus at night, a battalion is doubly impressive. The silent monster is full of restrained power; resolute in its onward sweep, impervious to danger, it looks a menacing engine of destruction, steady to its goal, and certain of its mission.”
Source : MacGill, Patrick (2017). “The Amateur Army”, p.31, Read Books Ltd
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“On a plane you can pick up more and better people than on any other public conveyance since the stagecoach.”