Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALDThe world’s history is constant, like the laws of nature, and simple, like the souls of men. The same conditions continually produce the same results.
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It is important to arrange games and competition so that all Scouts of the troop take part.
BADEN POWELL DE AQUINO -
In the States, there has been, compared to the Sixties and Seventies, a huge retrenchment – not just in poetry – into the personal.
ADRIENNE RICH -
If you’re scarde to fail, you don’t deserve to be successful.
CHARLES BARKLEY -
The power of the leader is given to him by the people, so he has a duty to engage and listen more attentively and carefully to the aspirations of the people.
BAN KI-MOON -
The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way you can break the ice.
ADAM MCKAY -
I don’t miss playing football, but I do miss going into the dressing room every day and having a laugh.
ALAN HANSEN -
I like double entendre because then the people who get it enjoy it, and the people who don’t get it don’t know about it.
BETTY WHITE -
Hobbes: Jump! Jump! Jump! I win! Calvin: You win? Aaugghh! You won last time! I hate it when you win! Aarrggh! Mff! Gnnk! I hate this game! I hate the whole world! Aghhh!
BILL WATTERSON -
What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which words were not mere signals, but signifiers of something other than themselves.
JOHN BERGER -
If I make a joke about black people or Asian people or whatever, and then an Asian comes up to me afterwards and says, “That joke offended me,” I’m still more or less not going to listen, but at least it makes sense, like I said something that was about them.
BRAD WILLIAMS -
Sometimes the eye gets so accustomed that if you don’t have a change, you’re bored. It’s the same with fashion, you know. And that, I suppose, is what style is about.
BILL BLASS -
I always ask myself: “Did I get one percent better today?”
BENSON HENDERSON -
I don’t think punk ever really dies, because punk rock attitude can never die.
BILLY IDOL -
Human beings burn in the hatred of self inflicted wounds, when they compare themselves with others.
DR. ZAINAB ANSARI -
God, can he see what he’s doing to me.
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