Clara Barton
Nurse, Activist
"The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me."
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Swings
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Bette Davis
Actress
"Some young Hollywood starlets remind me of my grandmother's old farmhouse -- all painted up nice on the front side, a big swing on the backside, and nothing whatsoever in the attic."
Anne Frank
Diaries Writer
"The only way to truly know a person is to argue with them. For when they argue in full swing, then they reveal their true character."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Justice, Jurist, Author
"My right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins."
John Green
Author, YouTuber
"Lonley, Vaguely pedophilic swing set seeks the butts of children."
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"'Swing' is an adjective or a verb, not a noun. All jazz musicians should swing. There is no such thing as a 'swing band' in music."
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"Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom."
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"Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perennially rejuvenated illusions."
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"The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword."
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"The market is a pendulum that forever swings between unsustainable optimism (which makes stocks too expensive) and unjustified pessimism (which makes them too cheap). The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists."
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"I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher."
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"Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait."
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"I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would never have written Don Giovanni, Charlie Parker would have never played anything but swing music."
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"History has always been a series of pendulum swings, but the individual doesn't have to get caught in that."
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"His laugh is made if porch swings and lemonade"
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"I think that gravity sets into everything, including careers, but pendulums do swing and mountains do become valleys after a while... if you keep on walking."
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"It’s the fire in my eyes, And the flash of my teeth, The swing in my waist, And the joy in my feet. I’m a woman Phenomenally."
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"By developing your discipline and courage, you can refuse to let other people's mood swings govern your financial destiny. In the end, how your investments behave is much less important than how you behave."
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"Think. Don't just swing. Think about the pitcher, what he threw you last time up, his best pitch, who's up next. Think."
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"I have such an extreme attitude about work, where I can just completely be derelict of my responsibilities and then when I am not derelict, I am completely indulged in it. I swing pretty wildly from the two extremes."
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"There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master the victory cry of the great ape as it issued from the androgynous chest of Johnny Weissmuller, to the accompaniment of thousands of arms and legs snapping during attempts to swing from tree to tree in the backyards of the Republic."
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"If I have a swing, I have a shot."
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"Just trust your instincts. There's an old saying in golf, you've studied the swing many times, and you practice and practice, but when you stand over the ball, you just have to trust your swing. And you trust it. And if you don't trust it, you'll ruin it; your brain will take over."
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"The only thing you should force in a golf swing is the club back in the bag."
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"Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like anything else. What is the other text, the original? I have no answer. I suppose it is the source, the deep sea where ideas swim, and one catches them in nets of words and swings them shining into the boat... where in this metaphor they die and get canned and eaten in sandwiches."
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