"A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason."

Carlyle, Thomas on reason
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"Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."

Angelou, Maya on nature
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"If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's going to stop them."

Berra, Yogi on baseball   

"You can't think and hit the ball at the same time."

Berra, Yogi on baseball
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"Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes."

Berra, Yogi on politics   

"You can observe a lot by just watching."

Berra, Yogi on observation
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"You can see a lot by observing."

Berra, Yogi on observation
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"A nickel isn't worth a dime today."

Berra, Yogi on money
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"When asked what would he do if he found $1 million, Yogi responded, If the guy was poor, I'd give it back."

Berra, Yogi on money   

"I made a wrong mistake"

Berra, Yogi on mistakes
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"If you don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else."

Berra, Yogi on goals
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"Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical"

Berra, Yogi on baseball
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"Ninety percent of this game is half mental."

Berra, Yogi on baseball   

"If the fans don't come out to the ball park, you can't stop them ."

Berra, Yogi on baseball   

"Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours."

Berra, Yogi on death
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"Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."

Berra, Yogi on crowds
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"The game isn't over until it's over."

Berra, Yogi on competition
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"Referring to the bad sun conditions in left field at the stadium: It gets late out there early."

Berra, Yogi on weather   

"That's his style of hitting . If you can't imitate him, don't copy him."

Berra, Yogi on uniqueness
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"Yogi saw three of his players in the locker room wearing Cone Head hats. Yogi said, Those guys make a pair."

Berra, Yogi on work   

"I didn't say the things I said."

Berra, Yogi on speakers and speaking   

"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is."

Berra, Yogi on practice
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"Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked."

Berra, Yogi on popularity
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"It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future."

Berra, Yogi on the future
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"Yogi ordered a pizza. The waitress asked How many pieces do you want your pie cut? Yogi responded, Four. I don't think I could eat eight."

Berra, Yogi on food and eating
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"You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn't enough, in the second half, you have to give what is left."

Berra, Yogi on effort   

"When you come to a fork in the road, take it."

Berra, Yogi on decisions
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"Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors."

Addison, Joseph on books - reading
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"Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends."

Adams, Dawn on books - reading
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"My alma mater was books, a good library. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity."

Malcolm X on libraries
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"Read, read, read. Read everything-- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window."

Faulkner, William on books - reading
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"My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence."

Sitwell, Dame Edith on silence
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"When is a crisis reached? When questions arise that can't be answered."

Kapuscinski, Ryszard on crisis
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"In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you."

Adler, Mortimer J. on books - reading
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"That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on books - reading
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"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

Tagore, Rabindranath on adversity
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Twain, Mark on action
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"What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?"

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on genius
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"Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us..."

Marden, Orison Swett on grief
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"Blood will tell, but often it tells too much."

Marquis, Don on blood
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