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Cocktail music he accepts as audible wallpaper.
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Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.
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A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
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They have been playing golf for 800 years and nobody has satisfactorily said why.
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Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.
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Every sport pretends to a literature, but people don't believe it of any other sport but their own.
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A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it.
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Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy.
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Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.
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There is even - as with no other game - a fascinating detective literature, a wry commentary on the human comedy, implicit in the book of rules.
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The South is one of those kingdoms of the mind, like India or Scotland, that are neat and understandable only to people who have never been there.
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The best thing about Eisenhower's Presidency was his Jeffersonian conviction that there should be as little government and as much golf as possible.
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No myth dies harder, and none is more regularly debunked by the facts, than the one about international sports contributing to international friendship.
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Humiliations are the essence of the game. They derive from the fact that the human anatomy is exquisitely designed to do practically anything but play golf.
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Like a christening, a wedding, a graduation ceremony, a holy war, a revolutioneven?a fireworksdisplay, agaudy promise of what life ought to be, not life itself.
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It has always been cited as an irrepressible symptom of America's vitality that her people, in fair times and foul, believe in themselves and their institutions.
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All presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running something less heroic and much more intractable: namely the presidency.
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Texas does not, like any other region, simply have indigenous dishes. It proclaims them. It congratulates you, on your arrival, at having escaped from the slop pails of the other 49 states.
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To the goggling unbeliever Texans say — as people always say about their mangier dishes — "but it's just like chicken, only tenderer." Rattlesnake is, in fact, just like chicken, only tougher.
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
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Born:
November 20, 1908
Died:
March 30, 2004
(aged 95)
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