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"Progress always involves risk you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first base." »Frederick Wilcox
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"Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates; The fumes of it invade the brain, And make men giddy, proud, and vain; By this the fool commands the wise, The noble with the base complies, The sot assumes the rule of wit, And cowards make the base submit." »Butler
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"Forming characters Whose Our own or others Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence." »Elihu Burritt
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"Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence." »Elihu Burritt
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"Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands." »Anne Frank
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"In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow." »Sir Philip Sidney
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"Solo homers usually come with no one on base." »Ralph Kiner
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"I base most of my fashion sense on whether or not it itches." »Gilda Radner
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"Emotion is a rotten base for politics." »Dick Francis
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"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most People are even incapable of forming such opinions." »Albert Einstein
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"I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch." »Gilda Radner
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"Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life." »Julia T. Alvarez
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"Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you." »William Blake
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"Edwards missed getting Stearns at third base by an eyeball." »Jerry Coleman
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"Houston, uh, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed." »Neil Armstrong
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"That's the fourth extra base hit for the Padres -- two doubles and a triple." »Jerry Coleman
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"The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development." »Confucius
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"When a base fellow cannot vie with another in merit he will attack him with malicious slander." »Sa?di
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"All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand." »Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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"Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple." »Barry Switzer
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"No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time--but a good plan should keep a concentration from forming." »Charles E. Wilson
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"If I were playing third base and my mother were rounding third with the run that was going to beat us, I'd trip her. Oh, I'd pick her up and brush her off and say, 'Sorry, Mom, but nobody beats me.'" »Leo Durocher
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"Knowledge is destroyed by associating with the base; with equals equality is gained, and with the distinguished, distinction." »The Hitopadesa
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"Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It's an unfair game." »Rod Kanehl
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"Refrain from doing ill for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds we are all to prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved." »Juvenal
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"Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved." »Juvenal
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"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are not even capable of forming such opinions." »Albert Einstein
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"The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers." »Scott Adams
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"You, the Spirit of the Settlement ... Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming Here, you stand, good folk, think I, when I see them at Ellis Island, here you stand in your fifty groups, with your fifty languages and histories, and your fifty blood hatreds and rivalries..." »Israel Zangwill
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"...it is a base thing to look to others for your defense instead of depending upon yourself. That defense alone is effectual, sure, and durable which depends upon yourself and your own valor." »Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
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