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Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there. - Bran

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there. – Branch Rickey

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Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game. – Branch Rickey

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Sports
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Branch Rickey
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I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places – uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me – I find fault. – Branch Rickey

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Courage
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Branch Rickey
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Beware of expanding what is clear…. A literary work is produced by means of art, a book by means of ink and paper. You may produce a work in two pages, and only make a book although you fill ten volumes folio. – Joseph Joubert (1754–1824), translated from French by George H. Calvert, 1

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Brevity

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books — what other men do not say in whole books. – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

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Brevity

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction. – Hosea Ballou

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Brevity

“In good prose (says Schlegel) every word should be underlined!” that is, every word should be the right one; and then no one would be righter than another. There are no italics in Plato. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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To bear is to conquer our fate. – Thomas Campbell

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It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times — the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie — seem attractive by comparison. – Christopher Lasch

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The dictate of the light says: Know yourself and what you are. The dark replies, By all means, but then become afraid. – Tanith Lee

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