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• The last thing you want to do is shoot 80 wearing 'tartan troosers'.

  Ian Poulter

  Golf, Want, Portal

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• If I could have shot 69 in the last round every time, I would have won nine U.S. Opens. Nine!

  Sam Snead

  Golf, Nine, Shots

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• Companies cannot really see beyond their current customer base. They explicitly or implicitly do things to protect their current customers. And the last person to want real change is your customer. This is why most new ideas come from small companies that have nothing to lose.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Real, Educational, Ideas

  "Online Extra: Q&A With MIT's Nicholas Negroponte". Interview with Stephen Baker, www.bloomberg.com. June 21, 2004.

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• This may be said for the last quarter of the twentieth century: the truism that if we want a better world we will have to be better people came to be acknowledge, if not thoroughly understood, by a significantly large minority.

  Tom Robbins

  Philosophy, Educational, People

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.23, Bantam

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• Here we are standing face to face, isn't this world a crazy place, just when I thought the chance had passed, you go and save the best for last.

  Vanessa L. Williams

  Crazy, Together, World

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• When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how much he had learned in the last seven years.

  Mark Twain

  Father, Science, Years

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• The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light, and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Fall, Autumn, Light

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Greenough Thayer Shedd (1854). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.251

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• At Boston University, I motivated negatively, and I found that although it can work at first, by the end of the year everyone is dying for the year to end and you have lost them. The last two years at BU, I motivated positively and got much better results.

  Rick Pitino

  Basketball, Boston, Years

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• Practices should be for the players and not the coach. Practices should be fun for the players, positive in nature, and last no more than two hours.

  Norm Sloan

  Basketball, Fun, Player

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• In going for the last shot of the game most people wait too long to take the shot. Give yourself a chance to get the first shot and tap the ball in. Your players are normally inside the defense.

  Norm Sloan

  Basketball, Player, Games

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• Nobody's taller than the last man standing

  LaMichael James

  Sports, Men, Last Man Standing

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• This time last year I would have said Federer would beat Sampras's record. Now I'm not so sure. His aura has gone. He's not as dominant as he was, and since I beat him in Australia he's looked frustrated. Players are beginning to challenge him now, especially myself and Rafa. He's got 12 Grand Slams to his name and maybe he will beat Sampras, but now I'm here it will be tough for him.

  Novak Djokovic

  Player, Years, Names

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• These last few years we've seen an unacceptable abuse of power, having a president whose priority is expanding his own power.

  Trey Gowdy

  Bad Ass, Years, Priorities

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• I've been looking over the list of spring chores I made up last fall, and darned if they aren't fall chores, after all.

  Robert Breault

  Spring, Fall, Procrastination

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• In football you always get judged on your last game. Whoever you are, or how amazing you are, it's the last game that everyone has seen.

  Thierry Henry

  Sports, Football, Games

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The only difference between this and Custer's last stand was that Custer didn't have to look at the tape afterward.

  Terry Crisp

  Hockey, Nhl, Differences

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• I would be the last to disparage the genius of the politicians who make our laws," Hutchison wrote around that time, "the writers who make our books, the artists who make our pictures, but in gauging the true culture of the nation and reckoning its tensile strength, let the student not neglect hockey

  Bruce Hutchison

  Book, Hockey, Artist

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• The atmosphere was even greater than in Winnipeg last year. The place was almost packed for warm-ups, which was fun for us. You look at the group and you get your salute and you get the standing ovation and that means a lot to us.

  Jennifer Botterill

  Fun, Mean, Hockey

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• I think we came out the last couple of game and have been able to get it going. The first couple we were tentative a little bit, that energy, maybe excite. I saw in the last couple of games we've been able to channel that and use it in a positive way to go, be aggressive, physical and skate. When we're skating and physical we're at our best and put a lot of pressure on the other team that way.

  Jarome Iginla

  Couple, Team, Hockey

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• I had a few fights last year, but I need to take boxing lessons. I need to, because in the NHL it's required.

  Maxim Kuznetsov

  Fighting, Hockey, Years

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• The library, I believe, is the last of our public institutions to which you can go without credentials. You don't even need the sticker on your windshield that you need to get into the public beach. All you need is the willingness to read.

  Harry Golden

  Beach, Book, Reading

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• If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it.

  Stephen Leacock

  School, Would Be, Littles

  Stephen Leacock (2012). “Feast of Stephen”, p.96, McClelland & Stewart

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• On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea.

  Patricia Cornwell

  Morning, War, Ocean

  Patricia Cornwell (2005). “From Potter's Field”, p.355, Penguin

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• Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace, uncalled for, natural as air. It is intangible; no one can grasp it or fight against it; it dwells in time - is the same thing as time; if it comes in fits and starts, that is only so as to leave the sufferer more defenseless during the moments that follow, those long moments when one relives the last bout of torture and waits for the next.

  Cesare Pavese

  Mean, Fighting, Air

  Cesare Pavese (2017). “This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950”, p.211, Routledge

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• Meditation gives us peace of mind without a tranquilizer. And unlike a tranquilizer, the peace of mind that we get from meditation does not fade away. It lasts for good in some corner of the inmost recesses of our aspiring heart.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Heart, Meditation Practice, Giving

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