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Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!

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Put Mickelson and Toms out there. You know, they had the morning off. They rested. Knowing them and the competitors that they are, they are probably a little angry that they weren't out there in the morning. Hal Sutton
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..Fell over the prostrate steersman, and there we all lay in a heep, two or three of us quite picturesque with the nosebleed. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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E. Stanley Jones quote: "Life is supplied with a basic adequacy."
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The dream is real, my friends. The failure to make it work is the unreality. Toni Cade Bambara
Vivienne Westwood quote: "The French have got taste."
The French have got taste. Vivienne Westwood
Michel de Montaigne quote: "An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity."
An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity. Michel de Montaigne
So, let us not be blind to our differences--but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved. And if we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal. John F. Kennedy
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Got to lose control before you take control. Patti Smith
But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it. Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I don't like to repeat myself as an actor. Joe Lando