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I try to learn from my mistakes. When I didn't take that 3-pointer against Florida State, I didn't h...
ADRIAN JOSEPH
I didn't think about the Florida State game anymore because I had a bad game. I don't try to dwell o...
ADRIAN JOSEPH
She walked with measured steps, draped in striped and fringed cloths, treading the earth proudly, wi...
JOSEPH CONRAD
Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath...
JOSEPH ADDISON
May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for t...
JOSEPH LANCASTER
Sometimes I don't even deliberate. I just decide from the bench, it's so obvious. The beauti...
JOSEPH WAPNER
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. ...
JOSEPH SUGARMAN
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon ...
JOSEPH HELLER
Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above anothe...
JOSEPH ADDISON
God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumph...
JOSEPH STOWELL
The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their succe...
JOSEPH JACOBS
I think that children have a power to imagine that is almost magical when compared to the adult imag...
JOSEPH WEIZENBAUM
We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.
JOSEPH JEFFERSON
The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is responsible. Universes of vi...
JOSEPH WEIZENBAUM
There in no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.
JOSEPH ADDISON
Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore always represented as blind.
JOSEPH ADDISON
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and somethi...
JOSEPH ADDISON
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and somet...
JOSEPH ADDISON
Entrepreneurial profit is the expression of the value of what the entrepreneur contributes to produc...
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER
Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the w...
JOSEPH JOUBERT
The friendships of the world are oft Confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasure; Ours has s...
JOSEPH ADDISON
Great souls by instinct to each other turn, Demand alliance, and in friendship burn.
JOSEPH ADDISON
Our body is a well-set clock, which keeps good time, but if it be too much or indiscreetly tampered ...
JOSEPH HALL
It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
JOSEPH CONRAD
I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an ...
JOSEPH CONRAD
The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
JOSEPH CONRAD
Gossip is what no one claims to like -- but everyone enjoys.
JOSEPH CONRAD
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, ...
JOSEPH CONRAD