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Woody Hayes Quotes

Woody Hayes quotes

Woody Hayes with fullback Dick Doyle and assistant coach Ernie Godfrey, 1952.

A good football player finds out that he gets knocked down dozens of times. But he gets up, and the first thing he knows he’s knocking other people down. The great thing about football is that when you get knocked down, you get up and go again. You don’t lie there and moan and groan and rail against the fates. Woody Hayes

A man is always better than he thinks. Woody Hayes

All my life I have been and always will be a hero-worshiper. Woody Hayes

Any time you give a man something he doesn’t earn, you cheapen him. Our kids earn what they get, and that includes respect. Woody Hayes

Being cold, like being determined to win, is just a state of mind. Woody Hayes
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Margaret Thatcher Quotes

Margaret Thatcher quotesAll attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail. It must be business as usual. Margaret Thatcher

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country. Margaret Thatcher

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t. Margaret Thatcher

Being prime minister is a lonely job… you cannot lead from the crowd. Margaret Thatcher
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Erich Fromm Quotes

Erich Fromm quotes

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Erich Fromm Quotes from Escape from Freedom (1941)

Authority is not a quality one person ”has,” in the sense that he has property or physical qualities. Authority refers to an interpersonal relation in which one person looks upon another as somebody superior to him. Erich Fromm

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction. Erich Fromm

Like the effect of advertising upon the customer, the methods of political propaganda tend to increase the feeling of insignificance of the individual voter. Erich Fromm
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Susan Sontag Quotes

Susan Sontag quotesNever worry about being obsessive. I like obsessive people. Obsessive people make great art. Susan Sontag

Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals. Susan Sontag

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs. Susan Sontag

The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions. Susan Sontag
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Charles Spurgeon Quotes

Charles Spurgeon quotesSincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite. Charles Spurgeon

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties. Charles Spurgeon

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth. Charles Spurgeon

Luck generally comes to those who look after it; and my notion is that it taps, once in a lifetime, at everybody’s door, but if industry does not open it luck goes away. Charles Spurgeon
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Carl Jung Quotes

Carl Jung quotesA collection of a hundred great brains makes one big fathead. Carl Jung

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong. Carl Jung

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown. Carl Jung

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition. Carl Jung
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Richard Nixon Quotes

Richard Nixon quotesAmericans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that. Richard Nixon

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them. Richard Nixon

You’ve got to learn to survive a defeat. That’s when you develop character. Richard Nixon

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories. Richard Nixon
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Charles Dickens Quotes

Charles Dickens quotesIn love of home, the love of country has its rise. Charles Dickens

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time. Charles Dickens

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. Charles Dickens

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known. Charles Dickens (A Tale of Two Cities)

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Nelson Mandela Quotes

Nelson Mandela quotesOnly free men can negotiate. Nelson Mandela

We enter into a covenant that we shall build a society in which all South Africans, both black and white, will be able to walk tall, without and fear in their hearts, assured of their inalienable right to human dignity – a rainbow nation at peace with itself and the world. Nelson Mandela

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find ways in which you yourself have altered. Nelson Mandela
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Madonna Quotes

Madonna quotes

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Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It’s a painful religion. We’re all gluttons for punishment. Madonna

I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this. Madonna

I’m tough, I’m ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a bitch, OK. Madonna

I wouldn’t have turned out the way I was if I didn’t have all those old-fashioned values to rebel against. Madonna
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