Quotes by Heywood Broun - Page 1

A cat is nobody's fool.
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Animal Rights
Cat
Fool
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For truth there is no deadline.
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Truth
Deadline
Honesty
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For the truth there is no deadline.
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Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
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Inspirational
Sports
Athlete
Baseball
Character
Build
Reveal
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A technical objection is the first refuge of a scoundrel.
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Refuge
Objection
Scoundrel
Technical
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The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.
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Loses
Tragedy
Almost
He
Wins
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Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.
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God
Religion
Atheist
If There Is A God
Nobody
Constantly
Insist
Talks
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Only Puritans think of the Devil as the most fascinating figure in the universe.
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Devil
Puritan
Thinking
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Everybody favours free speech in the slack moments when no axes are being ground.
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Axes
Free Speech
Moments
Speech
Favours
Ground
Slack
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God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach.
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God
Football
Sides
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'Get up and hit a home run,' has never been a part of the usable technique of any manager.
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Home Run
Technique
Manager
Usable
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The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don't read.
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Heart
Pure
Threat
Young
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Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other.
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Granite
Blocks
Hearts
Hell Is
Paved
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Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger will become a vegetarian.
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Appeasement
Believe
Vegetarian
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Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.
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Bible
Brotherhood
Community
Comradeship
Happy Life
Word
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I have always held to the theory that too much chalk may be just as bad for a novel as for a knee joint.
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Chalk
Held
Joint
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The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from beasts.
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Human Beings
Beasts
Beings
Characteristic
Chief
Distinguishes
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I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream.
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Food
Adventure
Doubt
Surprise
Holds
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The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from the beasts.
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Love
Beast
Humans
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Even the revolutionary writer will err if he fails to grasp the enormous effectiveness of occasional understatement.
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Effectiveness
Enormous
Occasional
Revolutionary
Understatement
Err
Fails
Grasp
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I do know that whenever a player hits the ball out of the park, I have a sense of elation. I feel as if I had done it.
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Elation
Park
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People who come up through life or literature the hard way must inevitably carry their scars with them into composition.
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Composition
Hard Way
Life Must People
Inevitably
Scars
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The tradition of professional baseball always has been agreeably free of chivalry. The rule is, "Do anything you can get away with."
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Baseball
Chivalry
Tradition
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I do not see a necessary connection between proletarian literature and some set percentage of words which bring the blushes to a maiden's cheek.
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Literature
Blush
Cheek
Connection
Maiden
Necessary
Percentage
Proletarian
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Perhaps the most startling reversal of tradition came in the case of Lefty Grove. He shattered the cruel slanders which have always followed lefthanders.
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Grove
Reversal
Shattered
Cruel
Followed
Lefty
Startling
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Increasingly, it becomes evident that managing a ball club is a psychiatrist's job. In a short series, the mental attitude of the combatants is everything.
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Evident
Mental Attitude
Psychiatrist
Increasingly
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Life is not a matter of theories. Life is a matter of facts. It calls on the young and the old alike to face these facts, even though they are hard and sometimes unpleasant.
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Facts
Alike
Calls
Life Is A
Theories
Unpleasant
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The editorial strategy of the 'World' is seemingly rested upon the theory that in a desperate cause, it is well to ask a little less than you hope to get. I think you should ask more.
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Desperate
Strategy
Theory
Editorial
Rested
Seemingly
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The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and sewing are written by men. It is all part of a great scheme of sex propaganda.
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Casual
Cooking
Examination
Horrible
Masculine
Propaganda
Sewing
Scheme
Reveal
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All spiritual things must have in them a childlike quality. The belief in immortality rests not very much on the hope of going on. Few of us want to do that, but we would like very much to begin again.
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Quality
Belief
Childlike
Immortality
Spiritual
Begin
Again
Few
Rests
Spiritual Things
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When the ball was last seen crossing the roof of the stand in deep right field at 315 feet, we wonder whether new baseballs conversing together in the original package ever remark: "Join Ruth and see the world."
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Baseball
Feet
Together
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It is ridiculous to say that Sacco and Vanzetti are being railroaded to the chair. The situation is much worse than that. This is a thing done cold-bloodedly and with deliberation. But care and deliberation do not guarantee justice.
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Deliberation
Situation
Chair
Guarantee
Worse
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Every now and then, we hear parents commenting on the fearful things which motion pictures may do to the minds of children. They seem to think that a little child is full of sweetness and of light. We had the same notion until we had a chance to listen intently to the prattle of a three-year-old.
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Fearful
Motion Pictures
Notion
Now And Then
Sweetness
Commenting
Little Child
Motion
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We are under no delusions as to the innate goodness even of very small children. They are bad a great deal of the time, but before it has been knocked out of them, they see no limit to the potentialities of the human will. Theirs is the faith to move mountains, because they do not yet know the fearful heft of them.
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Fearful
Goodness
Innate
Delusions
Great Deal
Limit
No Limit
Small Children
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