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«Baseball is the exponent of American Courage, Confidence, Combativeness, American Dash, Discipline, Determination, American Energy, Eagerness, Enthusiasm, American Pluck, Persistency, Performance, American Spirit, Sagacity, Success, American Vim, Vigor, Virility.»
Author: Al Spalding
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«Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.»
Author: Leo Rosten
(Novelist)
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Quotations
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advises, contradict, discovers, fonder, hesitate, leap, out of sight, promptly, Proverbs, sagacity, warns
«The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
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dragged, frequently, pulling, pull down, sagacity, The Dog
«One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance, co-operation, competence, and purpose which Man has suffered since he rose up on his hind legs. He began to chatter and he developed Reason, Thought, and Imagination, qualities which would get the smartest group of rabbits or orioles in the world into inextricable trouble overnight.»
«There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former. The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace. Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
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bring forth, continued, hangs, incident, incidents, link, sagacity, trace, transition, unconnected
«Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity.»
«The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights -- the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others.»
Author: Walter Bagehot
(Analyst, Economist, Editor)
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constitutional, constitutional right, constitutional rights, consulted, encourage, monarchy, sagacity, sovereign, The monarchy, Three Kings, warn
«War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.»
«Fear is the instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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Fear
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herald, heralding, heralds, instructor, instructors, revolutions, sagacity, The Herald
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