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What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game...There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife\'s fidelity and his mother\'s respectability.

What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game...There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.

A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.

After studying the Hungarian language for years, I can confidently conclude that had Hungarian been my mother tongue, it would have been more precious. Simply because through this extraordinary, ancient and powerful language it is possible to precisely describe the tiniest differences and the most secretive tremors of emotions.

Without danger I cannot be great. That is how I pay for Abel's blood. Danger and fear follow my steps everywhere. Without them courage would have no sense. And it is courage, courage, courage that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.

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Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obligation to become the servant of a man.

Of the two lots, the woman's lot of perpetual motherhood, and the man's of perpetual babyhood, I prefer the man's.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But here again, because there is nothing to sell, there is a very general disposition to regard a married woman's work as no work at all, and to take it as a matter of course that she should not be paid for it.

Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand.

The ability to make witty observations is commonly refered to as "cynism" by people who lack it.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

To be a champion you must live like one.

The harder I work the more I live.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

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Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Those who can’t change their minds can’t change anything.

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