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PAIGE, Satchel

CitationMisquotesContextSource LinkCitation “Ain’t no man can avoid being born average, but there ain’t no man got to be common.” ~Satchel Paige, American baseball player Attributed by sports writer Jim Raglin (c. 1957) “Change of Pace,” Jim Raglin, Lincoln Evening Journal & Nebraska State Journal, p. 8, column 1; online via Newspapers.com [subscription service] www.newspapers.com Misquotes Re-quote note: Paige also received credit for the quote in an earlier column by Florida sports editor Bill McGrotha. The quote shared by McGrotha also came from a second-hand source, and the wording was slightly different: “McLemore also passed on some of the philosophy of Satchel Paige, the ancient pitcher who last year hurled for

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CHANDLER, Raymond

CitationContextSource IDCitation “[Chess is] as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.” ~Raymond Chandler, American-British author & screenwriter Describing a game of chess, The Long Goodbye (1953) Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1953 edition, p. 156 Context Extended excerpt [Fiction, Narrator]: “I filled a pipe, paraded the chessmen and inspected them for French shaves and loose buttons, and played a championship tournament game between Gortchakoff and Meninkin, seventy-two moves to a draw, a prize specimen of the irresistible force meeting the immovable object, a battle without armor, a war without blood, and as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find

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OWENS, Jesse

CitationContextSource LinkCitation “Awards become corroded, but friends gather no dust.” ~Jesse Owens, American athlete & orator Address to students & staff of East High School, Phoenix, Arizona, cited in “Former Olympic Star Prescribes Education” (April 1973) article by Isabel Braunstein, Arizona Republic, 14 April 1973, p. 63, column 5 [p. 64 .pdf file]; online via Newspapers.com [subscription service] www.newspapers.com Context Extended excerpt [Newspaper article, describing Owens’ speech to high school students]: “He approves athletics, he said, because they provide other young people, as they provided him, with something to compete and excel in. But he advised: “Athletic awards become tarnished and diplomas fade with passing years. Gold turns green and the ink grays until

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CARY, Lorene

CitationContextSource ISBNCitation “I had not loved enough. I’d been busy, busy, so busy, preparing for life, while life floated by me, quiet and swift as a regatta.” ~Lorene Cary, American author Black Ice (1991) New York: First Vintage Books, 1992 edition, p. 218 Context Extended excerpt: [Memoir] “I had not loved enough. I’d been busy, busy, so busy, preparing for life, while life floated by me, quiet and swift as a regatta. I had not loved enough. The greedy girl inside me clutched at the little white box with its red ribbons. She was heartbreaking to look upon, a spoiled child at a party grabbing up expensive gifts, no

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CARTER, Jimmy

CitationContextSource LinkCitation “A simple and a proper function of government is just to make it easy for us to do good and difficult for us to do wrong.” ~Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States “Our Nation’s Past and Future” (15 July 1976) Presidential candidacy acceptance speech, Democratic National Convention, Madison Square Garden, New York, NY; transcript online via The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library & Museum, ‘Acceptance Speech,' www.jimmycarterlibrary.gov Context Extended excerpt [Presidential candidate nomination acceptance speech]: “It is time for our government leaders to respect the law no less than the humblest citizen, so that we can end once and for all a double standard of justice. A

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IACOCCA, Lee

CitationContextSource ISBNCitation “A country’s competitiveness starts not on the factory floor or in the engineering lab. It starts in the classroom.” ~Lee Iacocca, American automotive executive Talking Straight (1988) with Sonny Kleinfeld, New York, NY: Bantam Books, July 1989 edition, p. 236 Context Extended excerpt: [From a book of autobiographical essays & thoughts on various topics. Quoted excerpt appears in chapter XIII: “The School Crisis”] “A country’s competitiveness starts not on the factory floor or in the engineering lab. It starts in the classroom. We’ve got to get cracking on education – at all levels – or we’ll get run over by the Far East.” (p. 232) Source ISBN

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DILLARD, Annie

CitationContextSource ISBNCitation “A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days.” ~Annie Dillard, American author The Writing Life (1989) New York: Harper Perennial, 2013, p. 32 Context Extended excerpt: [Non-fiction] “A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time. A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order – willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later,