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Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

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Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior. ↗

— Charles Sturt

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Once you have commitment, you need the discipline and hard work to get you there. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

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Lots of people think it was Jimmy Page who had the first fuzzbox. It wasn't, No! it wasn't me either. ↗

— Jim Sullivan

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I never have known a man of ordinary common-sense who did not urge upon his sons, from earliest childhood, doctrines of economy and the practice of accumulation. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

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If you ever live in a country run by a committee, be on the committee. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

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Labor organizations are formed, not to employ combined effort for a common object, but to indulge in declamation and denunciation, and especially to furnish an easy living to some officers who do not want to work. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

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The waste of capital, in proportion to the total capital, in this country between 1800 and 1850, in the attempts which were made to establish means of communication and transportation, was enormous. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

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Then, again, the ability to organize and conduct industrial, commercial, or financial enterprises is rare; the great captains of industry are as rare as great generals. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

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I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command. ↗

— Billy Sunday

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