Quote by Jacob Bronowski
The world is full of people who never quite get into the first tea

The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show. – Jacob Bronowski

Other quotes by Jacob Bronowski

Who has not hoped
To outrage an enemys dignity?
Who has not been swept
By the wish to hurt?
And who has not thought that the impersonal world
Deserves no better than to be destroyed
By one fabulous sign of his displeasure? – Jacob Bronowski

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Violence
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The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline. – Jacob Bronowski

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I can tell you one thing. Ive done this my way. I dont have anybody to blame for this win but me, and I love it. – John Daly

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