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Baseball is the exponent of American Courage, Confidence, Combativeness, American Dash, Discipline, Determination, American Energy, Eagerness, Enthusiasm, American Pluck, Persistency, Performance, American Spirit, Sagacity, Success, American Vim, Vigor, Virility. -- Albert Goodwill Spalding
All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to judicious use of sabotage. -- Thorstein Veblen
The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his. -- James Thurber
War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Without this tremendous passion for power, influence, and advantage which money gives, how could nature develop the highest type of man? Without this infinite longing, whence would come the discipline which industry, perseverance, tact, sagacity, and frugality give? -- Orison Swett Marden
I love Winston Churchill. I love the wisdom he had, the sagacity. I like people who are independent-minded. People who aren't part of clans or systems, who are talented and free, and able to do things without being corrupted by the system. -- Lapo Elkann
Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind. -- Leo Rosten
Egotism is usually subversive of sagacity. -- Marianne Moore
The audacity of my sagacity is instrumentality to my successity. -- Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity. -- Sun Tzu
Accept and express your underlying certitude, and it shall be worldwide sagacity. -- Ogwo David Emenike
Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Manhood and sagacity ripen of themselves; it suffices not to repress or distort them. -- George Santayana
His [the President's] office is anything he has the sagacity and force to make it. -- Woodrow Wilson
The successful businessman must be able to foresee possibilities, to estimate with sagacity the outcome in the future. -- Frank William Taussig
The height of your maturity and sagacity depends on your ability to see the beauty in ugly situations. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
Happy the man who gains sagacity in youth, but thrice happy he who retains the fervour of youth in age. -- Dagobert D. Runes
The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Common sense is a phrase employed to denote that degree of intelligence, sagacity, and prudence which is common to all men. -- William Fleming
It is only with prudence, sagacity, and much dexterity that great aims are accomplished, and all obstacles surmounted. Otherwise nothing is accomplished. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The most holy cannibalism you can perform is to eat the flesh and blood of sagacity, and by sharing it with other wisdom thirsty cannibals. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but selection. Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no powers of combination, no comparison, no judgment. -- Edmund Burke
Criticism, though dignified from the earliest ages by the labours of men eminent for knowledge and sagacity, has not yet attained the certainty and stability of science. -- Samuel Johnson
The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace. -- Joseph Addison
A man's genius seems to befriend the more when he reads with open heart, the masterpiece of masterminds, the sagacity of sages, and the ingenious words of geniuses of ages. -- Ogwo David Emenike
The most Indian thing about the Indian is surely not his moccasins or his calumet, his wampum or his stone hatched, but traits of character and sagacity, skill, or passion. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly upon unassisted genius and natural sagacity. -- Samuel Johnson
The enemy of art is the enemy of nature; art is nothing but the highest sagacity and exertions of human nature; and what nature will he honor who honors not the human? -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
... a man doesn't like to have his ego popped, especially when he prides himself on his sagacity, and then to be proved wrong by a man who claims he doesn't know anything. -- E.A. Bucchianeri
Serendipitous discoveries are made by chance, found without looking for them but possible only through a sharp vision and sagacity, ready to see the unexpected and never indulgent with the apparently unexplainable. -- Horace Walpole
Serendipity is the way to make discoveries, by accident but also by sagacity, of things one is not in quest of. Based on experience, knowledge, it is the creative exploitation of the unforeseen. -- Adrian Bejan
Sydney Smith playfully says that common sense was invented by Socrates, that philosopher having been one of its most conspicuous exemplars in conducting the contest of practical sagacity against stupid prejudice and illusory beliefs. -- Edwin Percy Whipple
Honest and outspoken, honorable and uncompromising, Jubal A. Early epitomized much that was the Southern Confederacy. His self-reliance, courage, sagacity, and devotion to the cause brought confidence then just as it inspires reverence now. -- James I. Robertson, Jr.

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