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Sir Winston Churchill
Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill- designed for the purpose.
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
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Eric Idle
At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits more satirical comment than a repressive, so that if comedy is to function in some way as a safety release then it must obviously deal with these taboo areas. This is part of the responsibility we accord our licensed jesters, that nothing be excused the searching light of comedy. If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunity from laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted.
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Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Let's be honest Isn't a lot of what we call tap dancing really just nerves
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George Santayana
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
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George Herbert Allen
Man is what he believes.
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George Bernard Shaw
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours.
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Thomas Adams
He who demands mercy and shows none burns the bridges over which he himself must later pass.
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Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
Hope is a waking dream.
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Mark Twain
When in doubt, tell the truth.
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