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The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower your class. – Paul Fussell	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If you sincerely desire a _truly_ well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and "nutty". You need the balance! Your poor brain is already being impregnated with middle-of-the-road crap, twenty-four hours a day, _no matter what_. Network TV, newspapers, radio, magazines at the supermarket... even if you never watch, read, listen, or leave your house, even if you are deaf and blind, the _telepathic pressure alone_ of the uncountable normals surrounding you will insure that you are automatically well- grounded in consensus reality. – Rev. Ivan Stang - High Weirdness By Mail	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Those that respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made. – Mark Twain	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love Born out of concern for all beings. – The Buddha	added by anonymous 13 years ago
He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike. – William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II scene 1	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. – J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire	added by anonymous 13 years ago
There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen. – James Lovell, speech to Girl Scouts in DuPage County, Illinois, 1997 - quoted in the Chicago Tribune 2-3-03	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. – Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening	added by anonymous 13 years ago
There are people who make things happen, those who watch what happens, and those who wonder what happened. – Unknown	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If America shows weakness and uncertainty, the world will drift toward tragedy. That will not happen on my watch. – George W. Bush	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else do it wrong without comment. – T. H. White	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Watch for good times to retreat into yourself. Frequently meditate on how good God is to you. – Thomas a Kempis, quoted in the LDS Church News 8/20/2005	added by anonymous 13 years ago
There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age. – Sainte-Beave	added by anonymous 13 years ago
What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it. – Jiddu Krishnamurti	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Let us watch well our beginnings, and results will manage themselves. – Alexander Clark	added by anonymous 13 years ago
I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice? He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias. – Albert Einstein	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If a person offends you and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures. Simply watch your chance and hit him with a brick. – Mark Twain, "Advice to Youth" Speech, 1882	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Watch your thoughts they become words. Watch your words they become actions. Watch your actions they become habits. Watch your habits they become character. Watch your character it becomes your destiny. – Patrick Overton	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Oh do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch. – Jane Austen	added by anonymous 14 years ago
To stay in places and to leave, to trust, to distrust, to no longer believe and believe again, . . . to watch the snow come, to watch it go, to hear rain on a tent, to know where I can find what I want. – Ernest Hemingway	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack. – Harry Emerson Fosdick	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam that flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his own thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a sort of alienated majesty. – Ralph Waldo Emerson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A man builds a fine house and now he has a master, and a task for life he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days. – Ralph Waldo Emerson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Behold, the fool saith, Put not all thine eggs in the one basket, -- which is but a manner of saying, Scatter your money and your attention, but the wise man saith, Put all your eggs in the one basket and -- watch that basket. – Mark Twain	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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