"If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work."

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William Shakespeare

#Sports Quotes #Work Quotes #Holiday Quotes

“The high-minded definition of politics is: 'the art or science of government; the art or science concerned with guiding or influencing governmental policy.' It is only when you keep reading in Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary that you get closer to the truth: 'political activities characterized by artful and often dishonest practices'.”
“Separation of power says the judiciary committee is supposed to confirm qualified judges and then what the Supreme Court does, that is their function, not my function.”
“I remember in 2000, when President Clinton came to Cartagena just before Plan Colombia started, the country was on the verge of becoming a failed state. Today, we are one of the most solid democracies, where institutions are working, where the scandals such as false positives have come to light because of those functioning institutions.”
“The tree falls not at the first stroke.”

Source : Henry George Bohn, John Ray (1855). “A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages. And a Complete Alphabetical Index”, p.517
“We're so quick to point out our own flaws in others.”

Source : Song: 11th Dimension, Album: Phrazes For The Young, 2009
“A fetish is a story masquerading as an object.”
“There is resistance to change. There's a resistance to ideas.”
“Every good mathematician is at least half a philosopher, and every good philosopher is at least half a mathematician.”

Source : Attributed in "Mathematics as grammar: 'Grammar' in Wittgenstein's philosophy of mathematics during the Middle Period" by A. A. B. Aspeitia, Indiana University, (p. 25), 2000.

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