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Kareem Abdul-Jabar


I try to do the right thing at the right time.They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.

William Henry Hudson, Afoot in England, 1909


You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.

Brendan Behan


When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

H. Allen Smith


When there are two conflicting versions of a story, the wise course is to believe the one in which people appear at their worst.

Johann Kaspar Lavater


Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.

Chinese Proverb


Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891


I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

William Wordsworth


That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

Quintilian


When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

Harry Hershfield


New York: where everyone mutinies but no one deserts.

B. J. Gupta


Earlier people used to switch on TV's after getting bored with their routine work. Now they switch on to routine work after getting bored with TV.

Francis Bacon


Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.

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