If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.
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The only way in which one human being can properly attempt to influence another is by encouraging him to think for himself, instead of endeavoring to instill ready-made opinions into his head.
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She's throwing well. She's just playing with tremendous confidence. The team has made some great plays behind her. If we get her a couple of runs for a lead, as a coach, it's a great feeling.
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Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.
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Chance is a name for our ignorance.
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Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season. All great men of letters have therefore been enthusiastic walkers.
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