#pole

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I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could have done it, but they never picked up a pole, and never made the feeble effort to pick their legs off the ground and get over the bar.


Bob Richards


#bigger #could #done #effort #faster

Now my eyes are turned from the South to the North, and I want to lead one more Expedition. This will be the last... to the North Pole.


Ernest Shackleton


#eyes #i #last #lead #more

I was very short when I was little, so I probably had - and there may be a residue of it now - that Napoleon complex. Wanting to be as big and as powerful as the big guys.


Wesley Snipes


#big guys #complex #guys #had #i

I wouldn't take the Pope too seriously. He's a Pole first, a pope second, and maybe a Christian third.


Muriel Spark


#first #i #maybe #pole #pope

Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn't meant to convince anybody of anything.


Art Spiegelman


#anybody #anything #convince #definition #i

We mostly feel fearful because we feel powerless. We feel powerless, I contend, because of a style of thinking that splits information in two poles that makes us lose all the operative information we need to solve the problem.


Patricia Sun


#contend #fearful #feel #i #information

There are enough Poles in Chicago to make up one of the largest cities in Poland.


Suzanne Fields


#cities #enough #largest #make #make up

I was already on pole, then by half a second and then one second and I just kept going. Suddenly I was nearly two seconds faster than anybody else, including my team mate with the same car.


Ayrton Senna


#anybody #car #else #faster #going

I used to say of Napoleon that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.


Duke of Wellington


#field #forty #his #i #made

Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.


A. J. P. Taylor


#how #iii #learned #like #make