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“Never forget is not something you say on a prescribed day; if it is real it is something you live the rest of your life”
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“Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.”
Source : Quoted in Time, 31 July 1973. Usually attributed to Robinson, but slightly earlier evidence is found in the Guthrian (Guthrie County, Iowa), 26 Jan. 1970, which printed "Close only counts in horse shoes and grenades."
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“Each of us does, in effect, strike a series of deals or compromises between the wants and longings of the inner self, and an outer environment that offers certain possibilities and sets certain limitations.”
Source : Maggie Scarf (1980). “Unfinished business: pressure points in the lives of women”, Doubleday Books
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“When we gaze into the eyes of our beloved, we're staring into the eyes of a sacred mirror, and we recognize our oneness.”
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“Without the knowledge of the true number of the people, as a principle, the whole scope and use of keeping bills of birth and burials is impaired; wherefore by laborious conjectures and calculations to deduce the number of people from the births and burials, may be ingenious, but very preposterous.”
Source : Sir William Petty (1986). “The Economic Writings of Sir William Petty: Together with the Observations Upon the Bills of Mortality More Probably by John Graunt”, Augustus m Kelley Pubs
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“Most students have thoughts about emigrating to Israel. A significant number go on aliyah. We are proud of our Israel programs, which come at a considerable cost to the university.”
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“Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.”
Source : William Howard Taft (1912*). “Peace, patriotic and religious addresses by President Taft: delivered during his administration”
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“The heart makes dreams seem like ideas.”
