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«Making a choice is like backing a horse-in a hundred years, they may decide you picked wrongly.»
Author: Edward Carpenter | About: Choice | Keywords: backing, picked, wrongly
«Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of freedom. Countless people dare not say a thing because they know it will be picked up and made a song of by the press. That limits freedom.»
Author: Geoffrey Fisher | About: Freedom, Press | Keywords: countless, loudly, picked
«Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world.»
Author: Bruce Barton (Congressman) | Keywords: conquered, organisation, picked, ranks, twelve
«They should have picked a different city to name after a man who reputedly never told a lie»
Author: Doug Larson | Keywords: picked, reputedly
«Loose words are picked up like gold coin.»
Author: Russian Proverb | Keywords: coin, Coined, coining, gold, gold coin, looser, looses, picked
«One time I snuck a ball on with me and when I went to winding up, I threw one of them balls to first and one to second. I was so smooth I picked off both runners and fanned the batter without that ump or the other team even knowing it.»
Author: Satchel Paige | About: Sports | Keywords: batter, fanned, first team, picked, runner, runners, runner up, The Runner, threw, ump, winding
«Mankind's yearning to engage in sports is older than recorded history, dating back to the time millions of years ago, when the first primitive man picked up a crude club and a round rock, tossed the rock into the air, and whomped the club into the sl»
Author: Dave Barry (Humorist, Writer) | Keywords: crude, First Date, million years ago, picked, recorded, The Club, tossed
«Of course with John McCain out of the race, George W. Bush has to pick a running mate. Which is kind of a scary proposition when you think about it. I mean his dad picked Dan Quayle, an he isn't as smart as his dad.»
Author: Jay Leno (Comedian, Host) | Keywords: dad, Dan, Dan Quayle, George, George W. Bush, George W, John McCain, mate, McCain, picked, proposition, Quayle, running mate, scary
«Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy (President) | Keywords: hunter, Khrushchev, picked, reminds, The Hunter, The Tiger, The Wall
«Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of Solitaire. It is a grand passion.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Essayist, Lecturer, Poet) | About: Horses, Passion | Keywords: game, gentle, grand, hobbies, hobby, horse, laid, picked, riding, solitaire
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