Although we have not been down this road before, we all know that there is big influx of baseball fans who arrive around the first of March with the express mission of attending games for Cactus League.
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind.
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You come from attending the funeral of mankind to attend to a natural phenomenon. A little thought is sexton to all the world.
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We must believe that emotion recollected in tranquillity is an inexact formula. For it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor without distortion of meaning, tranquillity. It is a concentration, and a new thing resulting from the concentration of a very great number of experiences which to the practical and active person would not seem to be experiences at all; it is a concentration which does not happen consciously or of deliberation. These experiences are not recollected and they finally unite in an atmosphere which is tranquil only in that it is a passive attending upon the event.
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'Weapons are the tools of violence; all decent men detest them. Weapons are the tools of fear; a decent man will avoid them except in the direst necessity and, if compelled, will use them only with the utmost restraint.
Peace is his highest value. If the peace has been shattered, how can he be content?
His enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself. He doesn't wish them personal harm. Nor does he rejoice in victory. How could he rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
He enters a battle gravely, with sorrow and with great compassion, as if he were attending a funeral.'
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And there was that wholesale libel on a Yale prom. If all the girls attending it were laid end to end, Mrs. Parker said, she wouldn't be at al...
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The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.
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One is a socialist because one used to be one, no longer going to demonstrations, attending meetings, sending in one's dues, in short, without paying.
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You know, I've been attending so many banquets that I know what they're going to serve before I get there.
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In this troublesome world, we are never quite satisfied. When you were here, I thought you hindered me some in attending to business; but now,...
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Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long.
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I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it
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Attending upon a prince is as dangerous as keeping company with a tiger.
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