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Theory is splendid but until put into practice, it is valueless. ↗

— James Cash Penney

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I cannot tell you much about the picture- it depends on so many things, the first of which that comes to my mind is: splendid as he is, is there too much of Spencer Tracy. ↗

— Basil Rathbone

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We Latins make splendid lovers and splendid older men. ↗

— Cesar Romero

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Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup. ↗

— Sara Teasdale

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If all things were made through Him, clearly so must the splendid revelations have been which were made to the fathers and prophets, and became to them the symbols of the sacred mysteries of religion. ↗

— Origen

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In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

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These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms. ↗

— Pedro Calderon de la Barca

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There was splendid fighting on the part of the division on the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th. There was no faltering or hesitation. Each man went to work determined to carry anything in reason. ↗

— John Buford

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But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now. ↗

— Rudolf Otto

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Robert Taylor was not only a splendid actor in a wide variety of roles but one of the most handsome men in the western world. ↗

— Audrey Meadows

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