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“I hang around under the radar. Nobody is bothering me for interviews.”

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Retief Goosen is a South African professional golfer born on February 3, 1969. He has achieved significant success in the professional golf circuit, winning multiple major tournaments, including two U.S. Open titles. more

“Among well bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his turn; and an easy stream of conversation maintained without vehemence, without interruption, without eagerness for victory, and without any airs of superiority.”

Source: Essays, Literary, Moral, and Political

“Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press.”

Humans Born Human Nature Presses Unfortunate

Author:David Hume

“It is more rational to suspect knavery and folly than to discount, at a stroke, everything that past experience has taught me about the way things actually work”

Way Past Taught Rational Folly Suspects Strokes Discounts Past Experiences Knavery

Author:David Hume

“I may venture to affirm the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement.”

May Different Mankind Movement Succeed Perception Collections Perpetual Venture Bundles Flux Different Perceptions

Book:An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: And Selections from a Treatise of Human Nature

Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: And Selections from a Treatise of Human Nature

“But I would still reply, that the knavery and folly of men are such common phenomena, that I should rather believe the most extraordinary events to arise from their concurrence, than admit of so signal a violation of the laws of nature”

Men Should Believe Stills Law Common Events Extraordinary Arise Folly Signals Laws Of Nature Violation Knavery Concurrence

Book:An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

“Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence.”

Pleasure Powerful Company Influence Sorrow

Book:Essays Moral, Political, and Literary

Source: Essays Moral, Political, and Literary

“I made my own house be my gallows.”

Made House My Own Gallows

Author:Dante Alighieri

“I don’t believe in courtship.It’s a waste of time. If I love the person, I’ll tell her right away. But for you, I’ll make an exception. Just love me now, and I’ll court you forever.”

Ifs Believe Persons Forever Waste Court Don't Believe Exception Wasting Time Courtship Just Love Me

Author:Ferdinand Marcos

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