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It was a singular personal triumph. He had run strongly in the rural reaches of the district, where party professionals had thought he had little chance. And the pros took notice.
Jean Edward Smith • FDR
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David M. Rubenstein • How to Lead: Wisdom from the World's Greatest CEOs, Founders, and Game Changers
His most remarkable natural gift, however, is his vision. During a game, Bradley’s eyes are always a glaze of panoptic attention, for a basketball player needs to look at everything, focussing on nothing, until the last moment of commitment. Beyond this, it is obviously helpful to a basketball player to be able to see a little more than the next ma
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His high-scoring totals are the result of his high percentage of accuracy, not of an impulse to shoot every time he gets the ball.
John McPhee • A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton
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The forty years—1819 to 1859—after the Senate moved back into its elegant domed Chamber would be called the Senate’s “Golden Age.”
Robert A. Caro • Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
His appeal for the opposite sex was now considerable.
Jean Edward Smith • FDR
one night, while I was leading a break up the floor, I noticed Bob Cousy over my shoulder, running behind me. I told myself something was wrong, the picture was out of whack, the signature style was missing. Bob Cousy, to this day, is the best I’ve ever seen in the NBA at running a fast break. What I was inadvertently doing was taking him out of hi
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