"Military men are the scourges of the world."

-- Guy de Maupassant

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“I had twelve years as a Tottenham player under Bill Nicholson and could not have wished to have played for a better manager. I can still hear his wise words in my head when I am out on the training ground as a manager myself.”
“Clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung.”

Source : Tampa Bay Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January/February 1990.
“You need some coffee, don't you?" "Yes, I've only had a gallon.”
“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”
“"Sometimes", says a fellow depressive, "I wish I was in a full body cast, with every bone in my body broken. That's how I feel anyway. Then, maybe, people would stop minimising my illness because they can actually see what's wrong with me. They seem to need physical evidence."”
“I had to grow to love my body. I did not have a good self-image at first. Finally it occurred to me, I'm either going to love me or hate me. And I chose to love myself. Then everything kind of sprung from there. Things that I thought weren't attractive became sexy. Confidence makes you sexy.”
“California is going to take themselves off the cliff culturally and economically, fiscally. They are going to be at the trough in Washington wanting a bailout.”
“Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress.”

Source : Gelett Burgess (1916). “The Romance of the Commonplace”

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