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“The one nice thing about sports is that they prove men do have emotions and are not afraid to show them.”
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“Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.”
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“Like language, a code of manners can be used with more or less skill, for laudable or for evil purposes, to express a great variety of ideas and emotions. In itself, it carries no moral value, but ignorance in use of this tool is not a sign of virtue.”
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“No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book. ”
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“... he started on the first page and finished on the last. He was not a skimmer or a sniffer; he read meticulously, as if, swimming, he were being filmed in slow motion.”
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“If the door is locked, try the window.”
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“Most of us suffer from a kind of myopia. We see only the things that fit in with our beliefs about the world.”
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“... one is not born a genius, one becomes a genius ...”