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Armies are dependent on youthful male ignorance.
Rita Mae Brown
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Rita Mae Brown
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: November 28
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I'm not a person who worries too much about what I've done.
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Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves. The great difference between sport and art is that sport, like a sonnet, forces beauty within its own system. Art, on the other hand, cyclically destroys boundaries and breaks free.
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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.
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Possession of a secret is no guarantee of its truth.
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In sports, as in love, one can never pretend.
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The human animal dances wildest on the edge of the grave.
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