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Coaches Hot Seat NFL Quotes of the Day – Monday, September 30, 2013 – Ted Turner

Coaches Hot Seat NFL Quotes of the Day – Monday, September 30, 2013 – Ted Turner


“All my life people have said that I wasn’t going to make it.”

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“I didn’t get here for my acting… but I love show business.”

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“I see what keeps people young: work!”

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“I’ve never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn’t have the right attitude, didn’t give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn’t prepared and didn’t have the whole program worked out.”

And

“My son is now an ‘entrepreneur.’ That’s what you’re called when you don’t have a job.”

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“There’s nothing wrong with being fired.”

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“You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.”

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“You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.”

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“Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and advertise”

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“Sports is like a war without the killing.”

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“I didn’t care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.”

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“I mean, there’s no point in sittin’ around and cryin’ about spilt milk. Gotta move on.”

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“I know what I’m having ’em put on my tombstone: ‘I have nothing more to say’.”

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“Life is like a B-movie. You don’t want to leave in the middle of it but you don’t want to see it again.”

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“The mind is just another muscle.”

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“I’m a human being, just like everybody else. I’m up some days and down others. Some days, I just refuse comment. If I’m feeling a little down, I won’t say anything. But if I’m really up, I’ll let it all hang out. I do have a slight propensity to put my foot in my mouth.”

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“I’m a millionaire, I guess, but I’m just a normal person and I like everybody, taxi drivers, whoever you are, to call me by my first name and talk to me on a man-to-man basis. I think the garbage collector is as important as the goddamned president.”

And

‘I’ve got a virtually limitless supply of bullshit.”

Wikipedia:  Ted Turner

www.tedturner.com

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Coaches Hot Seat NFL Quotes of the Day – Sunday, September 29, 2013 – John Updike

Coaches Hot Seat NFL Quotes of the Day – Sunday, September 29, 2013 – John Updike

“A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.”

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‘Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.”

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‘Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.”

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“Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.”

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“If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.”

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“Sex is like money; only too much is enough.”

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“We are most alive when we’re in love.”

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“When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.”

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“I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.”

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“We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.”

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“I secretly understood: the primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is — its irresistible charm — a fire.”

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‘Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.”

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“It was true of my generation, that the movies were terribly vivid and instructive. There were all kinds of things you learned. Like the 19th century novels, you saw how other social classes lived — especially the upper classes. So in a funny way, they taught you manners almost. But also moral manners. The gallantry of a Gary Cooper or an Errol Flynn or Jimmy Stewart. It was ethical instruction of a sort that the church purported to be giving you, but in a much less digestible form. Instead of these remote, crabbed biblical verses, you had contemporary people acting out moral dilemmas. Just the grace, the grace of those stars — not just the dancing stars, but the way they all moved with a certain grace. All that sank deep into my head, and my soul.”

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“In the old movies, yes, there always was the happy ending and order was restored. As it is in Shakespeare’s plays. It’s no disgrace to, in the end, restore order. And punish the wicked and, in some way, reward the righteous.”

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“Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.”

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“The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it.”

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“America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.”

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“Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.”

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“Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.”

Wikipedia Page:  John Updike

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Coaches Hot Seat NFL Quotes of the Day – Saturday, September 28, 2013 – Henry Ford

Coaches Hot Seat NFL Quotes of the Day – Saturday, September 28, 2013 – Henry Ford

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.”

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“Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.”

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“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.”

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“Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.”

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“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”

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“I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.”

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“I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.”

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“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.”

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“If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.”

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“Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.”

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“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.”

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“The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.”

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“There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.”

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“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.”

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“What’s right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity – intellect and resources – to do some thing about them.”

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“Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.”

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“You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don’t seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.”

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“You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.”

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“If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.”

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“One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.”

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“I don’t know whether Napoleon did or did not try to get across there and I don’t care. I don’t know much about history, and I wouldn’t give a nickel for all the history in the world. It means nothing to me. History is more or less bunk. It’s tradition. We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker’s damn is the history we make today.”

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“An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.”

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“I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual to run and care for. It will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. But it will be so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one — and enjoy with his family the blessing of hours of pleasure in God’s great open spaces.”

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“The average man won’t really do a day’s work unless he is caught and cannot get out of it. There is plenty of work to do if people would do it.”

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“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.”

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“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”

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“It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.”

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“Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.”

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“A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.”

Wikipedia Page:  Henry Ford

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Coaches Hot Seat NFL Quotes of the Day – Friday, September 27, 2013 – Audie Murphy

Coaches Hot Seat NFL Quotes of the Day – Friday, September 27, 2013 – Audie Murphy

“Seems to me that if you’re afraid or living with some big fear, you’re not really living. You’re only half alive. I don’t care if it’s the boss you’re scared of or a lot of people in a room or diving off of a dinky little board, you gotta get rid of it. You owe it to yourself. Makes sort of a zombie out of you being afraid. I mean you want to be free, don’t you? And how can you if you are scared? That’s prison. Fear’s a jailer. Mind now, I’m not a professor on the subject. I just found it out for myself. But that’s what I think.”

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“If you’re afraid of anything, why not take a chance and do the thing you fear. Sometimes it’s the only way to get over being afraid.”

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“Let each man hear his own music and live by it. The drums roll one way for one man, I guess, and another way for another. You have to listen to your own.”

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“In life quality is what counts, not quantity.”

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“Audacity is a tactical weapon.  Nine times out ten it will throw the enemy off-balance and confuse him.”

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“The true meaning of America, you ask? It’s in a Texas rodeo, in a policeman’s badge, in the sound of laughing children, in a political rally, in a newspaper… In all these things, and many more, you’ll find America. In all these things, you’ll find freedom. And freedom is what America means to the world. And to me.”

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“Lead from the front.”

Wikipedia Page:  Audie Murphy

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Week 4 NFL MUST WIN Games for Head Coaches and Teams – 9 NFL Head Coaches and Teams Facing MUST WIN Games in Week 4

Week 4 NFL MUST WIN Games for Head Coaches and Teams

 

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Jim Harbaugh, San Francisco 49ers vs. St. Louis Rams – In the wake of the…

“Aldon Smith WILL Play”

….debacle in San Francisco last week where in our opinion 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh and the entire San Francisco organization put…

Winning ahead of Human Decency and Common Sense

….now Jim Harbaugh is fighting not only a lot of injuries on the field but also a locker room that is coming to the conclusion that there is…

One Set of Rules for Star Players

AND

Another Set of Rules for the Rest of the Players

…and that is a recipe for a Complete Disaster which is exactly what Jim Harbaugh will have on their hands if they lose to the St. Louis Rams tonight and drop to 1 – 3 on the season.

IF the 49ers lose to the Rams not only will San Francisco be in a world of hurt Jim Harbaugh will be on the…

HOT SEAT!

A chair on fire... metaphor "In The Hot Seat"

 

Jeff Fisher, St. Louis Rams vs. San Francisco 49ers – Jeff Fisher had the St. Louis Rams playing some pretty good football as the 2012 season wound to an end BUT in 2013 the Rams are off to a rocky 1 – 2 start with…

A Close Win Over Arizona

A Close Loss to Atlanta

A Beating They Took Against the Dallas Cowboys

….and on Thursday night in Week 4 they have a chance to right things at home against a reeling San Francisco 49ers team.

St. Louis SHOULD beat San Francisco tonight BUT if they don’t Jeff Fisher will continue to climb the Coaches Hot Seat Rankings!

 

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Tom Coughlin, New York Giants vs. Kansas City Chiefs – There is not a lot that a head coach can say after his team gets whipped…

38 – 0

….by a team in the Carolina Panthers that came into the game without a win BUT Tom Coughlin may have a bigger problem on his hands than just his team getting whipped because as we watched a replay of the Giants – Panthers game we saw some of the Giants players….

QUITTING

…against Carolina and now one has to wonder if things continue to spiral down IF the Giants players will quit on the entire season.

A game at Kansas City is up next for the New York Giants and that would be against an undefeated Kansas City Chiefs team that would love to move 4 – 0 on the season and beat the Hell out of the Giants in the process and if that happens….

Tom Coughlin’s job status will be in question in New York because if your team is quitting on you there is NO Damn reason for you to remain the head coach of anything…the New York Giants…or pee wee football.

PERIOD.

 

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Jim Schwartz, Detroit Lions vs. Chicago Bears – The good news in Week 3 for Jim Schwartz and the Detroit Lions is that they got a win….BUT…..that win was over the disorganized and confused Washington Redskins and now in Week 4 the Lions get back to playing REAL NFL teams with the Chicago Bears headed to Detroit for a NFC North Division match-up that will be a very important game for both teams to win.

Now at 2 – 1 on the season Schwartz and the Lions can move to 3 – 1 and be tied with the Chicago Bears in the NFC North with a win in this game BUT a loss in this spot will send Jim Schwartz back up the Coaches Hot Seat Rankings!

Coach Hard Jim Schwartz!

 

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Greg Schiano, Tampa Bay Buccaneers vs. Arizona Cardinals – With Greg Schiano benching Josh Freeman for Mike Glennon at QB the pressure has officially been turned-up a notch in Tampa Bay and either Schiano will start putting some wins up on the board or he might be looking for a college head coaching job come December.

At 0 – 3 on the season Greg Schiano’s overall record with Tampa Bay is now…

7 – 12

….and with these games left on the schedule…

Arizona
Philadelphia
At Atlanta
Carolina
At Seattle
Miami
Atlanta
At Detroit
At Carolina
Buffalo
San Francisco
At St. Louis
At New Orleans

…..either Greg Schiano WILL start coaching his football team or he will be heading back to the college game and that means starting to coach his football team in the game against Arizona on Sunday.

 

Leslie Frazier, Minnesota Vikings vs. Pittsburgh Steelers – YES Leslie Frazier and the Minnesota Vikings went 10 – 6 and went to the playoffs in 2012 BUT this is 2013 and the Vikings are off to a…

0 – 3

..start and they have the disorganized and confused Pittsburgh Steelers come to Minneapolis and if Minnesota can’t win this game then Leslie Frazier will be on the Hot Seat!

Coach Hard Leslie!

 

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Rex Ryan, New York Jets vs. Tennessee Titans – Rex Ryan knows exactly what he has to do in 2013…

Take the New York Jets to the Playoffs

….if he wants to return in 2014 as the head coach of the Jets and after starting the season at 2 – 1 the next five games….

At Tennessee
At Atlanta
Pittsburg
At Cincinnati
New Orleans

….may very well determine Rex Ryan’s future as a head coach in the NFL.

YES…the Tennessee Titans is a MUST WIN Game for Rex Ryan and the New York Jets!

 

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Jason Garrett, Dallas Cowboys vs. San Diego Chargers – With the NFC East looking like a division that will be lucky to have more than 1 team with a plus .500 record in 2013 IF Jason Garrett and the Dallas Cowboys can’t win the NFC East in 2013 then Garrett and the Cowboys WILL NEVER win the NFC East and that is why Garrett is under some serious pressure to get things done….and now!

The Dallas Cowboys are 2 – 1 on the season and they are entering a critical phase of their season with these next five games…

At San Diego
Denver
Washington
At Philadelphia
At Detroit

…..that will go a long ways in determining if Garrett and the Cowboys will make it to the postseason in 2013 which is a MUST for Garrett to return as the head coach in Dallas in 2014.

YES….San Diego is a MUST WIN Game for Jason Garrett and the Cowboys!

 

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Dennis Allen, Oakland Raiders vs. Washington Redskins – For a head coach on the Hot Seat Oakland Raiders head coach Dennis Allen is getting a break at the start of the 2013 season with games against the Hapless Jacksonville Jaguars and Washington Redskins in the first four games of the season and since Washington is playing so bad right now this Sunday’s game against Washington is a…

MUST WIN Game for Dennis Allen and the Raiders

….because if Oakland drops to 1 – 3 on the season with a tough schedule ahead we see lots of Hot Seat for Dennis Allen for the rest of the 2013 season!

Coach Hard Dennis Allen!

Coaches Hot Seat NFL Quotes of the Day – Thursday, September 26, 2013 – William Faulkner

Coaches Hot Seat NFL Quotes of the Day – Thursday, September 26, 2013 – William Faulkner


“A gentleman can live through anything.”

And

“A man’s moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.”

And

“A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.”

And

“All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.”

And

“Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”

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“An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.”

And

“Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.”

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“Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.”

And

“Given a choice between grief and nothing, I’d choose grief.”

And

“Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.”

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“I believe that man will not merely endure. He will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.”

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“I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.”

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“I’m bad and I’m going to hell, and I don’t care. I’d rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.”

And

“I’m inclined to think that a military background wouldn’t hurt anyone.”

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“It’s a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can’t eat for eight hours; he can’t drink for eight hours; he can’t make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.”

And

“Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That’s how he finds that he can bear anything.”

And

“My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.”

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“The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.”

And

“The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.”

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“There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it’s the risk, the gamble. In any event it’s a thing I need.”

And

“Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday’s omissions and regrets.”

And

‘We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.”

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“You should approach Joyce’s Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.”

And

“Even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as an honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.”

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“Be scared. You can’t help that. But don’t be afraid. Ain’t nothing in the woods going to hurt you unless you corner it, or it smells that you are afraid. A bear or a deer, too, has got to be scared of a coward the same as a brave man has got to be.”

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“I decline to accept the end of man. It is easy enough to say that man is immortal because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking. I refuse to accept this. I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. The poet’s, the writer’s, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet’s voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the
pillars to help him endure and prevail.” Nobel Prize Speech, December 1950

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“Mr. Khrushchev says that Communism, the police state, will bury the free ones. He is a smart gentleman, he knows that this is nonsense since freedom, man’s dim concept of and belief in the human spirit is the cause of all his troubles in his own country. But if he means that Communism will bury capitalism, he is correct. That funeral will occur about ten minutes after the police bury gambling. Because simple man, the human race, will bury both of them. That will be when we have expended the last grain, dram, and iota of our natural resources. But man himself will not be in that grave. The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.” Speech in New York, October 1959

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“No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only. Whatever its symbol — cross or crescent or whatever — that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race. Its various allegories are the charts against which he measures himself and learns to know what he is. It cannot teach a man to be good as the textbook teaches him mathematics. It shows him how to discover himself, evolve for himself a moral codes and standard within his capacities and aspirations, by giving him a matchless example of suffering and sacrifice and the promise of hope.” Paris Review Interview, 1958

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The two great men in my time were Mann and Joyce. You should approach Joyce’s Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with “faith.”

And

“Life is motion, and motion is concerned with what makes man move — which is ambition, power, pleasure. What time a man can devote to morality, he must take by force from the motion of which he is a part. He is compelled to make choices between good and evil sooner or later, because moral conscience demands that from him in order that he can live with himself tomorrow. His moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.”

Wikipedia:  William Faulkner

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Coaches Hot Seat NFL Quotes of the Day – Wednesday, September 25, 2013 – Albert Einstein

Coaches Hot Seat NFL Quotes of the Day – Wednesday, September 25, 2013 – Albert Einstein

“A man should look for what he is, and not for what he thinks should be.”

And

“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”

And

“All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.”

And

“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”

And

“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”

And

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”

And

“I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.”

And

“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

And

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.”

And

“Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.”

And

“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.”

And

“People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.”

And

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”

And

“To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.”

And

“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.”

And

“A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future.”

And

“Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”

And

“Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But there is no doubt in my mind that the lion belongs with it even if he cannot reveal himself to the eye all at once because of his huge dimension.”

And

“I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever.”

And

“Subtle is the Lord, but malicious He is not.”

And

“I do not carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books. …The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.”

And

“I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of sudden a thought occurred to me: If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight. I was startled. This simple thought made a deep impression on me. It impelled me toward a theory of gravitation.”

And

“Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible concatenations, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in point of fact, religious.”

And

“If A is success in life, then A = x + y + z. Work is x, play is y and z is keeping your mouth shut.”

And

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.”

And

“I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.”

And

“The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.”

And

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.”

And

“The important thing is not to stop questioning; curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when contemplating the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of the mystery every day. The important thing is not to stop questioning; never lose a holy curiosity.”

And

“When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it’s longer than any hour. That’s relativity.”

And

“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.”

And

“If I can’t picture it, I can’t understand it.”

And

“The most beautiful and deepest experience a man can have is the sense of the mysterious. It is the underlying principle of religion as well as all serious endeavor in art and science. He who never had this experience seems to me, if not dead, then at least blind.”

Wikipedia Page:  Albert Einstein

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Post Week 3 NFL Coaches Hot Seat Rankings – Tell Them The TRUTH Johnny Cash!

Post Week 3 NFL Coaches Hot Seat Rankings

There was a lot of discussion at Coaches Hot Seat over the past two days on whether San Francisco 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh should be put on the Hot Seat as the 49ers….

Fall to Pieces around Jim Harbaugh

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….after Harbaugh put Winning a football game ahead of Human Decency in playing Aldon Smith against the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday AND also because it seems that Harbaugh has…

One set of rules for star players

AND

Another set of rules for backup players

…on the 49ers but in the end we decided to wait and see if the team continues to fall apart this week…..mainly due to Jim Harbaugh’s actions in our opinion….and loses to the St. Louis Rams on Thursday night.

IF the San Francisco 49ers do LOSE to the St. Louis Rams on Thursday night Jim Harbaugh should be prepared to find his ass on the….

HOT SEAT!

Post Week 3 NFL Coaches Hot Seat Rankings

A chair on fire... metaphor "In The Hot Seat"

Tell them TRUTH Johnny Cash!

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1.  Dennis Allen, Oakland Raiders – In many ways Dennis Allen went zooming up the Post Week 3 Coaches Hot Seat Rankings because all of the Hot Seat coaches ahead of him lost this week BUT after the loss to the Denver Broncos on Monday night Allen’s overall record at Oakland is still worthy of being on the Hot Seat:

Overall Record:  5 – 14

After a close loss to a surging Indianapolis team in Week 1, a win over a hapless Jacksonville team in Week 2, and then a loss to maybe the best team in the NFL in Week 3 against the Denver Broncos it is hard to know what to make of Allen and the Raiders and the Week 4 game against a winless Washington Redskins team at home is probably not going to tell us much either….BUT…..the…

Washington Redskins

….game is a MUST WIN Game for Dennis Allen and the Raiders because if they cannot beat what looks like a crumbling Redskins team then they probably will not make it to a .500 record in 2013 which is probably what Allen needs to get a shot to coach the Oakland Raiders in 2014.

The Oakland Raiders beating what will probably be a desperate Washington Redskins team is a….MUST!

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2.  Greg Schiano, Tampa Bay Buccaneers – The Tampa Bay Bucs are now 0 – 3 after…

A Give-Away Loss against the New York Jets in Week 1

A Give-Away Loss against the New Orleans Saints in Week 2

A Loss To A Barely Motivated New England Patriots Team in Week 3

….and now very early in the 2013 season Greg Schiano and the Bucs face a MUST WIN and Better Damn Not Lose Game against the Arizona Cardinals at home because recovering from an 0 – 4 start to have even a respectful season is almost unheard of NFL history.

Get your Bucs team ready to play Greg Schiano and more importantly ready to…..WIN!

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3.  Tom Coughlin, New York Giants – Tom Coughlin went through a tragedy last week before his New York Giants played the Carolina Panthers with Coughlin losing his brother John in a freak accident after a Giants game…

Tom Coughlin loses his brother after accident, Mike Florio, Pro Football Talk

….and then on Sunday the Giants went to Carolina and got blown out by a winless Panthers team and after that loss the most stunning number to look at now is Tom Coughlin’s win/loss record since the Giants won Super Bowl XLVI:

9 – 10

Wow!

What exactly is wrong with the New York Giants besides….

The Giants don’t have anyone on the offensive line that could block Wet Tissue Paper

AND

The Giants don’t have a running back that could start for the Coaches Hot Seat flag-football team

AND

The Giants defense is filled with lots of Candy Asses that are afraid of contact

AND

The Giants seem to half-asleep during most of their games

…..is hard for us to discern BUT there is no getting around the Giants 0 – 3 start in 2013 and now the Giants have to play at an undefeated Kansas City in Week 4.

Got 0 – 4 New York Giants?

In our opinion….YES….is the answer to that question and that means…

The Hot Seat under Tom Coughlin just gets….HOTTER!

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4.  Jason Garrett, Dallas Cowboys – Is it just us or are the Dallas Cowboys players playing with a lot more passion than they have played with in recent years under Jason Garrett?

Has maybe Cowboys owner Jerry Jones let it be known that there is going to be a complete house cleaning if the Cowboys don’t make it to the playoffs this season?

We don’t know the answer to that question but it is very Damn clear to us that Jason Garrett knows he is coaching for his head coaching future in 2013 and after the win over the St. Louis Rams on Sunday the Cowboys are…

2 – 1

…on the season and they have coming up on their schedule these games:

At San Diego
Denver
Washington
At Philadelphia
At Detroit

It looks like a team coached by Bozo the Clown could beat the Washington Redskins this season BUT the game against Denver at home and the three upcoming road games at San Diego, at Philly and at Detroit look like tough games right now which really makes the game at San Diego on Sunday a MUST WIN Game for Jason Garrett and the Cowboys.

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5.  Ron Rivera, Carolina Panthers – The good news for Ron Rivera and the Carolina Panthers is that they got a win over the New York Giants on Sunday to get their first win of the season BUT the bad news for Ron Rivera and the Carolina Panthers is that…

A Helluva Lot of College Football Teams Could Beat the New York Giants Right Now!

….and that means that Rivera and the Panthers will have to keep proving themselves starting with a game at Arizona after their bye week.

IF Carolina is going to make a playoff run in 2013 they will need to really show-up in their next five games…

At Arizona
At Minnesota
St. Louis
At Tampa Bay
Atlanta

….because more than one stumble in their next five games and the Panthers will have a tough time getting to the playoffs which is probably the mark that Ron Rivera needs to hit in 2013 to return for the 2014 season.

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6.  Rex Ryan, New York Jets – Rex Ryan and the New York Jets have had an interesting start to the 2013 season with…

A Gift Win over the Tampa Bay Bucs

A Close Loss to the New England Patriots

A Win over the Buffalo Bills

….which is exactly the record that we expected the Jets to have after three games BUT now things get tougher with two straight road games….

At Tennessee

AND

At Atlanta

….and if the Jets lose those two games to run their record to 3 – 3 before returning home to play what looks like a hapless Pittsburgh Steelers team then Rex Ryan’s rear-end is going to be on fire….Hot Seat wise that is!

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7.  Jim Schwartz, Detroit Lions – Jim Schwartz and the Detroit Lions got a win in their MUST WIN Game on Sunday on the road against the Washington Redskins but then the Redskins might not win a game in 2013 if they stay on their current path and with that in mind the Lions will need to keep winning games to get Jim Schwartz off the Hot Seat beginning with the game this Sunday at home against the undefeated Chicago Bears.

Beat the Chicago Bears and Jim Schwartz will be off the Hot Seat…BUT….lose to the Bears and Schwartz will be climbing back up the Coaches Hot Seat Rankings!

Coach Hard Jim Schwartz!

Coaches Hot Seat NFL Quotes of the Day – Tuesday, September 24, 2013 – Walt Disney

Coaches Hot Seat NFL Quotes of the Day – Tuesday, September 24, 2013 – Walt Disney

“A man should never neglect his family for business.”

And

“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”

And

“All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.”

And

“Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.”

And

“I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.”

And

“I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.”

And

“I’d say it’s been my biggest problem all my life… it’s money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.”

And

“If you can dream it, you can do it.”

And

“It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.”

And

“Laughter is America’s most important export.”

And

“Of all the things I’ve done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.”

And

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”

And

“We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”

And

“When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.”

And

“When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.”

And

“You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.”

And

“You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.”

And

“You reach a point where you don’t work for money.”

And

“Over at our place, we’re sure of just one thing: everybody in the world was once a child. So in planning a new picture, we don’t think of grown-ups, and we don’t think of children, but just of that fine, clean, unspoiled spot down deep in every one of us that maybe the world has made us forget and that maybe our pictures can help recall.”

And

“Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave. That is why I believe that this frightfulness we see everywhere today is only temporary. Tomorrow will be better for as long as America keeps alive the ideals of freedom and a better life. All men will want to be free and share our way of life. There must be so much that I should have said, but haven’t. What I will say now is just what most of us are probably thinking every day. I thank God and America for the right to live and raise my family under the flag of tolerance, democracy and freedom.” Radio Address, March 1941

And

“I suppose my formula might be: dream, diversify and never miss an angle.”

And

“A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter what the outcome, he will know he has been alive.”

And

“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates’ loot on Treasure Island and at the bottom of the Spanish Main… and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.”

And

“I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible, because dreams offer too little collateral.”

And

“Courage is the main quality of leadership, in my opinion, no matter where it is exercised. Usually it implies some risk — especially in new undertakings. Courage to initiate something and to keep it going, pioneering and adventurous spirit to blaze new ways, often, in our land of opportunity.”

And

“I do not make films primarily for children. I make them for the child in all of us, whether we be six or sixty. Call the child “innocence”. The worst of us is not without innocence, although buried deeply it might be. In my work I try to reach and speak to that innocence, showing it the fun and joy of living; showing it that laughter is healthy; showing it that the human species, although happily ridiculous at times, is still reaching for the stars.”

And

“When I started on Disneyland, my wife used to say, “But why do you want to build an amusement park? They’re so dirty.” I told her that was just the point — mine wouldn’t be.”

And

“Every person has his own ideas of the act of praying for God’s guidance, tolerance, and mercy to fulfill his duties and responsibilities. My own concept of prayer is not as a plea for special favors nor as a quick palliation for wrongs knowingly committed. A prayer, it seems to me, implies a promise as well as a request; at the highest level, prayer not only is a supplication for strength and guidance, but also becomes an affirmation of life and thus a reverent praise of God.”

And

“I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things. Lecturing to children is no answer to delinquency. Preaching won’t keep youngsters out of trouble, but keeping their minds occupied will.”

And

“Actually, if you could see close in my eyes, the American flag is waving in both of them and up my spine is growing this red, white and blue stripe.”

And

“That’s the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don’t remember what it’s like to be twelve years old. They patronize; they treat children as inferiors. I won’t do that. I’ll temper a story, yes. But I won’t play down, and I won’t patronize.”

And

“To the youngsters of today, I say believe in the future, the world is getting better; there still is plenty of opportunity. Why, would you believe it, when I was a kid I thought it was already too late for me to make good at anything.”

And

“Leadership means that a group, large or small, is willing to entrust authority to a person who has shown judgement, wisdom, personal appeal, and proven competence.”

And

“Do a good job. You don’t have to worry about the money; it will take care of itself. Just do your best work — then try to trump it.”

And

“I believe firmly in the efficacy of religion, in its powerful influence on a person’s whole life. It helps immeasurably to meet the storms and stress of life and keep you attuned to the Divine inspiration. Without inspiration, we would perish.”

Wikipedia:  Walt Disney

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Coaches Hot Seat NFL Quotes of the Day – Monday, September 23, 2013 – Frederick Douglass

Coaches Hot Seat NFL Quotes of the Day – Monday, September 23, 2013 – Frederick Douglass


“A man’s character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about him.”

And

“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”

And

“Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.”

And

“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.”

And

“I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.”

And

“A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.”

And

“One and God make a majority.”

And

“I didn’t know I was a slave until I found out I couldn’t do the things I wanted.”

And

“The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.”

And

“A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.”

And

“To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.”

And

“The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.”

And

“A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.”

And

“The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.”

And

“Without a struggle, there can be no progress.”

And

“It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.”

And

“Man’s greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.”

And

“People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.”

And

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what a people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. Men may not get all they pay for in this world; but they must pay for all they get. If we ever get free from all the oppressions and wrongs heaped upon us, we must pay for their removal. We must do this by labor, by suffering, by sacrifice, and, if needs be, by our lives, and the lives of others.”

And

“No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.”

And

“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”

And

“Whatever the future may have in store for us, one thing is certain — this new revolution in human thought will never go backward. When a great truth once gets abroad in the world, no power on earth can imprison it, or prescribe its limits, or suppress it. It is bound to go on till it becomes the thought of the world. Such a truth is woman’s right to equal liberty with man. She was born with it. It was hers before she comprehended it. It is inscribed upon all the powers and faculties of her soul, and no custom, law, or usage can ever destroy it. Now that it has got fairly fixed in the minds of the few, it is bound to become fixed in the minds of the many, and be supported at last by a great cloud of witnesses, which no man can number and no power can withstand.”

And

“Mr. Lincoln was not only a great President, but a great man — too great to be small in anything. In his company I was never in any way reminded of my humble origin, or of my unpopular color.”

And

“I look upon my departure from Colonel Lloyd’s plantation as one of the most interesting events of my life. It is possible, and even quite probable, that but for the mere circumstance of being removed from that plantation to Baltimore, I should have to-day, instead of being here seated by my own table, in the enjoyment of freedom and the happiness of home, writing this Narrative, been confined in the galling chains of slavery. Going to live at Baltimore laid the foundation, and opened the gateway, to all my subsequent prosperity. I have ever regarded it as the first plain manifestation of that kind providence which has ever since attended me, and marked my life with so many favors. I regarded the selection of myself as being somewhat remarkable. There were a number of slave children that might have been sent from the plantation to Baltimore. There were those younger, those older, and those of the same age. I was chosen from among them all, and was the first, last, and only choice.”

Wikipedia Page:  Frederick Douglass

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