John Green
Author, YouTuber
"Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center."
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Rings
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Muhammad Ali
Boxer, Activist
"What counts in the ring is what you can do after you're exhausted. The same is true of life."
Robert the Bruce
King
"I have brought you to the ring, now you must dance."
Gracie Allen
Actress, Comedian
"I'm the candidate who forgot to take off her hat before she threw it in the ring."
Bill Keller
Journalist
"Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it."
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"I always ask myself why old heavyweights come back, but I plan to stay out of the ring."
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"Win if you can, lose if you must, always cheat, and if you have to leave the ring, leave tearing it down."
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"The third man in the ring makes boxing possible."
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"One of the many things I learned from all of this: If you aren't willing to fight for what you believe in, then don't even enter the ring."
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"Foul whisp'rings are abroad."
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"The only thing nicer than a phone that didn't ring all the time (or indeed at all) was six phones that didn't ring all the time (or indeed at all)."
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"My hat is in the ring."
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"I've always been someone who's kept my private life a little private. When there's a ring on my finger, I'll talk about it."
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"Flow down and down in always widening rings of being."
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"Ain't no reason for me to kill nobody in the ring, unless they deserve it."
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"She's wearing a ring that I bought on sale, and that makes her the property of this U.S. Male."
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"The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn't ring. Or the phone."
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"Bright is the ring of words When the right man rings them."
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"They must understand that – Elrond and the Council, and the great Lords and Ladies with all their wisdom. Their plans have gone wrong. I can't be their Ring-bearer. Not without Mr. Frodo."
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"Honour without profit is a ring on the finger."
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"My objective is to destroy anybody over 200 pounds, in the ring or out."
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"In the ring I can stay until I’m old and gray because I know how to hit and dance away"
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