Posts Quotes - Page 6

• College coaches want to power the ball inside, they want (their post players) to power the ball up, but no one can shoot from that 15-foot area anymore.

  Oscar Robertson

  Basketball, Player, College

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• The teacher should make a concerted effort never to lose his temper in the presence of the class. If a man, he may take refuge in profane soliloquies. If a woman, she may follow the example of one sweet-faced tranquil girl who went out in the yard and gnawed a post.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Girl, Education, Teacher

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• For evil news rides post, while good news baits.

  John Milton

  Evil, Bait, News

  'Samson Agonistes' (1671) l. 1538

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• Married and divorced, three beautiful daughters, two in college. The other one is 16, lives with her mom. I'm 46, I've worked for the Post Office for 18 years, seven facilities in three states.

  Arthur Godfrey

  Beautiful, Mom, Daughter

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• Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.

  John Berger

  Mean, Cutting, Past

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• One time I was hanging out with a girl and I wanted to kiss her. I was too nervous to do it, so I wrote ‘Can I kiss you?’ on a Post-It and handed it to her. And it worked!

  Dave Franco

  Girl, Kissing, Nervous

  "3 Dating Tricks From Dave Franco" by Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. May 30, 2013.

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• A friend of Nicole Ritchie told the New York Post that Nicole is definitely pregnant.

  David Spade

  New York, Drug, Nicole

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• If you need help identifying actionable analytics check out this post.

  Mark Twain

  Needs, Helping, Checks

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• One of my favorite bloggers who can articulate his ideas clearly is Avinash Kaushik. The only problem? His ideas are so awesome his posts are a mile long, but I promise they are worth the time.

  Chip Heath

  Ideas, Long, Promise

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• Anyone can repeat a technical explanation they read in a text-book or blog post.

  Albert Einstein

  Book, Explanation, Repeats

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• The study of this Book in your Bible classes is a post-graduate course in the richest library of human experience.

  Herbert Hoover

  Bible, Godly, Presidential

  "The State Papers and Other Public Writings of Herbert Hoover".

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• Remember your contemporaries who have passed away and were your age. Remember the honors and fame they earned, the high posts they held, and the beautiful bodies they possessed. Today all of them are turned to dust. They have left orphans and widows behind them, their wealth is being wasted, and their houses turned into ruins.
  No sign of them is left today, and they lie in dark holes underneath the earth.
  Picture their faces before your mind's eye and ponder.

  Al-Ghazali

  Beautiful, Wisdom, Lying

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• Yeah, that test says he's dumb as a fence post, but when he hits he looks like Einstein to me.

  Bum Phillips

  Football, Fence Post, Nfl

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• One of the most important post-9/11 efforts made to counter terrorism and the spread of weapons of mass destruction is President Bush's Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI).

  Frank Gaffney

  Mass Destruction, Effort, Important

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• If we suffer ourselves to be frightened from our post by mere lying, surely the enemy will use that weapon; for what one so cheap to those of whose system of politics morality makes no part?

  Thomas Jefferson

  Lying, Enemy, Suffering

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.36

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• The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race.

  Gough Whitlam

  Running, Horse, Memorable

  London Daily Telegraph, October 19, 1989.

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• When a guest blogger can't even be bothered sharing their own post on their social networks; they're pretty much admitting 'I don't care about this post, and I don't want to be associated with it'. In the end these guests posts are just another form of spam.

  George Stevens

  Admitting, Care, Guests

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• Make a list of competitors who will be disrupted by you. You do have competitors, right? You are better, right? If not, why are you going to Disrupt? Post a blog post about them and what makes you different.

  Robert Scoble

  Different, Blogging, Lists

  "Some new geeky Facebook lists and advice for startups launching" by Robert Scoble, www.businessinsider.com. August 28, 2012.

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• It is really funny how even cool chicks are sort of like, 'Our moms covered that feminism thing and now we're living in a post-that world,' when that just isn't true.

  Lena Dunham

  Mom, Feminist, Feminism

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• As a matter of fact we have to take special precautions during a battle to post police, to prevent more unwounded men than are necessary from accompanying a wounded man back from the firing line.

  Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig

  War, Men, Police

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• I don't believe you are simply born with the ambition of becoming chancellor. But if you want to make a difference, if you enjoy putting ideas into practice, then the post of chancellor has to be the one presenting the biggest opportunity of all.

  Angela Merkel

  Believe, Ambition, Opportunity

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• When I score I don't celebrate, its my job, does a postman celebrate when he delivers post?

  Mario Balotelli

  Soccer, Football, Jobs

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• Most goals are scored between the posts.

  Jamie Redknapp

  Football, Goal

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• Alekhine is a poet who creates a work of art out of something that would hardly inspire another man to send home a picture post card.

  Max Euwe

  Art, Home, Men

  "Why You Lose at Chess". Book by Fred Reinfeld (p. 180), 1956.

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• Every great improvement has come after repeated failures. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

  Charles Kettering

  Success, Failure, Science

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