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“If there is a mutual respect between players and coaches, that keeps the team honest and makes for a very healthy environment which in turn promotes other important qualities such as work ethic, integrity and a positive atmosphere for competing and winning.”
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“In the days of peace every precaution should be taken to insure that there are no forces making for war. Just as we now forbid the trafficking in certain drugs, in the sale of poisons, just as we forbid the making of any imprint that suggests a coin or currency, just as experience has demonstrated that men may not make profit out of certain things because of the danger of abuse, so in the gravest of all dangers laws should be passed taking from those who might gain from war or preparations for war every hope that advantage could come to them by such a calamity.”
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“It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.”
Source : "Ira Glass: Live and Uncut". Interview with Ana Marie Cox And Joanna Dionis, www.motherjones.com. August 11, 1998.
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“Alas! it is not the child but the boy that generally survives in the man.”
Source : Sir Arthur Helps (1892). “Essays and Aphorisms”
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“Will Thisbee gave me The Beginner's Cook-Book for Girl Guides. It was just the thing; the writer assumes you know nothing about cookery and writes useful hints - "When adding eggs, break the shells first.”
Source : Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (2009). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”, p.159, A&C Black
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“I see myself as not a typical theater person, but a person who uses the theater as a place to meet people and explore ideas.”
Source : "Let Me Down Easy". Interview with Yazmany Arboleda, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2010.
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“As the consumer is the public general, without distinction of rank or fortune, the free market is the most obvious expression of the sovereignty of the people and the best guarantee of democracy.”
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“Even as a kid I was never the generator of humor, but I always knew who was funny, who to hang out with.”