"Had we taken ten sails, and let the eleventh to escape, being able to get at her, I could never have called it well done."

-- Horatio Nelson

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“You don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies.”
“I think soccer is more respected now than it ever has been. You can see that in the numbers of young kids who are playing and the numbers of people who are coming to watch.”
“Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.”
“The sound of the sea, the curve of a horizon, wind in leaves, the cry of a bird leave manifold impression in us. And suddenly, without our wishing it at all, one of these memories spills from us and finds expression in musical language...I want to sing my interior landscape with the simple artlessness of a child.”
“Do you believe you can change your destiny?' he (SajhÃ«) said, seeking an answer. Alice found herself nodding. 'Otherwise, what's the point? If we are simply walking a path preordained, then all the experiences that make us who we are - love, grief, joy, learning, changing - would count for nothing.”
“To leave the world richerâ€”that is the ultimate success.”
“Veal is a very young beef and, like a very young girlfriend, it's cute but boring and expensive.”
“That mainstream English is essential to our self-preservation is indisputable . . . but it is not necessary to abandon Spoken Soul to master Standard English, any more than it is necessary to abandon English to learn French or to deprecate jazz to appreciate classical music.”

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