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Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a ve

Nobody minded what you did in bed or what you said about God, a very civilized attitude in 1948. – Simon Raven

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And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust. – Simon Raven

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Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books. – Simon Raven

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Rain, after all is only rain; it is not bad weather. So also, pain is only pain; unless we resist it, then it becomes torment. – I Ching

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Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere. – Bill Veeck

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If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude. – Colin Powell

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I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution. – Wernher von Braun

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