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Every member of our baseball team at West Point became a general: this proves the value of team sports.
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The true smoker abstains from imitating Vesuvius.
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I want to keep people engaged and I want them to feel connected to what I'm doing.
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I want to be perceived as a guy who played his best in all facets, not just scoring. A guy who loved challenges.
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Caring for someone is scary, because you both know how it feels to lose someone in the span of a heartbeat.
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The real world is far too complex and unpredictable to make something like the idea of humanity controlling its own evolution or engineering itself - well, I wouldn't say impossible but it should be approached with a degree of caution.
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Sinclair Lewis is the perfect example of the false sense of time of the newspaper world.... [ellipsis in source] He was always dominated by an artificial time when he wrote Main Street.... He did not create actual human beings at any time. That is what makes it newspaper. Sinclair Lewis is the typical newspaperman and everything he says is newspaper. The difference between a thinker and a newspaperman is that a thinker enters right into things, a newspaperman is superficial.
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He that would be a painter must have a natural turn thereto. Love and delight therein are better of the Art of Painting than compulsion.
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As a farmer, man himself became closely attached to the landscape, firmly rooted to the soil that supported him. At times the soil seemed bountiful and kindly and again stubborn and unfriendly, but it was always a challenge to man's cunning.
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In life, what more can you ask for than to be real?
