"Golf being a cold, calculating sort of game gives perhaps more scope for folly than any other. We have all the time in the world to make up our minds as to what is the wise thing to do and then we do the foolish one."

-- Bernard Darwin

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“Anger, and the self-righteousness that is both the cause and consequence of anger, tends to be easier on the psyche than personal responsibility.”

Source : "Fictional Politics" by Barry Eisler, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 29, 2010.
“If Love Were Oil, / I'd Be About a Quart Low.”
“I really appreciate artists of the 20th century, and I can see a lot of their influence on my work, but to suggest that my design only fits within an 'ism' kind of bothers me.”
“It isnt easy to put all of the ingredients together and one of the key things is this is the first time theres been a real, significant governmental body participation. In our case, its Collin County and the City of Frisco, the Frisco Economic Development group and the Frisco Independent School District. Those bodies, and Hunt Sports Group, obviously, put money into the project, and that has helped make it work.”
“A man, when he wishes, is the master of his fate.”
“Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He's always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children.”
“I have a taste for the macabre. I really am not drawn to imagery that is pretty, things that are just pretty. Iâ€™m drawn to things that challenge you, that make you nervous, that make you uncomfortable.”
“I'm as much influenced by Joseph Smith and the Mormons as I am, more so, than by Eliot. Actually, I'm much more influenced by the poetry of the Mormons.”

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