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All wars are planned by old men
In council rooms apart.


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Under the wide and starry sky
Dig the grave and let me lie;
Gladly I've lived and gladly die
Away from the world of strife;
These be the lines you grave for me;
Here he lies where he wants to be;
Lies at rest by the nineteenth tee,
Where he lied all through his life.


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When the One Great Scorer comes to write against your name — He marks—not that you won or lost—but how you played the game.

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Outlined against a blue-grey October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore they were known as Famine, Pestilence, Destruction, and Death. These are only aliases. Their real names are Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley, and Layden. They formed the crest of the South Bend cyclone before which another fighting Army football team was swept over the precipice.

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Failure isn't so bad if it doesn't attack the heart. Success is all right if it doesn't go to the head.

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For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name,
He writes—not that you won or lost—but how you played the Game.


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Grantland Rice

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Born: November 1, 1880
Died: July 13, 1954 (aged 73)
Bio: Henry Grantland Rice was an early 20th-century American sportswriter known for his elegant prose. His writing was published in newspapers around the country and broadcast on the radio.
Known for:
  1. The tumult and the shouting (1954)
  2. The Duffer's Handbook of Golf (1926)
  3. Base-ball ballads (1910)
  4. How to Play Golf (1931)
  5. The boys' book of sports

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