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God has given to man no sharper spur to victory than contempt of death.
Hannibal

Authors on Spurs Quotes: Bill Nichols Graham Roberts Honore de Balzac Francis Quarles Ovid John Gay Robert W. Sarnoff Michael Palin Walter Scott Janet Todd Aidy Boothroyd Nell Freudenberger Edmund Spenser Tom Kelley Thierry Henry John Locke Alexander Hamilton George Herbert Doug Martsch Lajos Kossuth C. Z. Guest Ursula K. Le Guin Joanna Hoffman Alan Brazil George Carey Dante Alighieri Robin Gibb William Blum Jean-Jacques Rousseau Charles Caleb Colton Harold W. Dodds Elizabeth Aston Tryon Edwards
2.
I particularly remember the time I gave (the research director) my paper on the banking industry. I felt very proud of my work. However, he read through it and said, 'This is useless. What makes the stock go up and down?' That comment acted as a spur. Thereafter, I focused my analysis on seeking to identify the factors that were strongly correlated to a stock's price movement as opposed to looking at all the fundamentals. Frankly, even today, many analysts still don't know what makes their particular stocks go up and down.
Stanley Druckenmiller

3.
Advertising is the foot on the accelerator, the hand on the throttle, the spur on the flank that keeps our economy surging forward.
Robert W. Sarnoff

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A national debt if it is not excessive will be to us a national blessing; it will be powerfull cement of our union. It will also create a necessity for keeping up taxation to a degree which without being oppressive, will be a spur to industry.
Alexander Hamilton

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We never reach our ideals, whether of mental or moral improvement, but the thought of them shows us our deficiencies, and spurs us on to higher and better things.
Tryon Edwards

6.
I have worked out with the Thunder, Lakers, Knicks, Grizzlies, Spurs, and a few others before the draft. I have worked out primarily against shorter and supposedly faster players in these workouts.
Jeremy Lin

7.
The Chavez-Obama pictures will join a postmodern photo array that includes Donald Rumsfeld gifting Saddam Hussein with spurs from President Reagan.
Christine Pelosi

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I would run through brick walls for Spurs.
Graham Roberts

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Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
Harold W. Dodds

10.
Don't squat with your spurs on.
Will Rogers

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I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases.
Pablo Neruda

12.
I've always liked to shoot from the hip. This is the perfect fit for me ... I'm willing to earn my spurs, because once again, after 18 years I'm back to being a rookie.
Reggie Miller

13.
It's been my life, Tottenham Hotspur, and I love the club.
Bill Nichols

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Publicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity.
Jeremy Bentham

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My wit is sharper then the finest mustache, and when I walk among men I make truths ring like spurs.
Edmond Rostand

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We pursue God because, and only because, He has first put an urge within us that spurs us to the pursuit.
Aiden Wilson Tozer

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I'm not going anywhere. You can print that wherever you want to. I'm here and I'm a Spur for life.
Tim Duncan

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Most of my photographs were taken on the spur of the moment, very quickly, just as they occurred. All attention focuses on the specific instant, almost too good to be true, which can only vanish in the following one.
Willy Ronis

19.
Continue to spur a running horse.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo

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You often feel like you are on a high wire with no net productions because you have to rely on spontaneity and come up with ideas on the spur of the moment - and then what happens is that there is electricity to it that gets caught.
Nicolas Cage

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Vanity is often the unseen spur.
William Makepeace Thackeray

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I will believe in the right of one man to govern a nation despotically when I find a man born unto the world with boots and spurs, and a nation with saddles on their backs.
Algernon Sidney

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There's got to be something you want to tell and that's the engine which spurs all of the work you have to do in order to create the story, but you have to love some sort of nugget of what you're telling to be a filmmaker.
Bradley Cooper

24.
Change comes from a degree of discomfort that allows for and spurs thought and action.
William Blum

25.
A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination.
Rebecca Solnit

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Oh blind! Oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity which spurs us so in the short mortal life and steeps us so through all eternity!
Dante Alighieri

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It is often spur-of-the-moment decisions, sometimes made by others, that can change our whole lives.
Jeffrey Archer

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Opposition is the very spur of love.
Tobias Smollett

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Art needs no spur beyond itself.
Victor Hugo

30.
There's always been a fierce rivalry between Spurs and Tottenham.
David Pleat

31.
Hunger's a great spur.
Robert Carlyle

32.
Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
Benjamin Disraeli

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Capitalism is the sorcerer's apprentice: it has summoned up powers which have spun wildly out of control and now threaten to destroy us.The task of socialism is not to spur on those powers but to bring them under rational human control.
Terry Eagleton

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Avarice, the spur of industry.
David Hume

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Lust is a sharp spur to vice, which always putteth the affections into a false gallop.
Francis Quarles

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Constraints can spur creativity and incite action, as long as you have the confidence to embrace them.
Tom Kelley

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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise
John Milton

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Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Honour, the spur that pricks the princely mind, To follow rule and climb the stately chair.
George Peele

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perhaps there's no sharper spur to meditation than answered prayer.
Hortense Calisher

41.
And I suppose they [Spurs] are nearer to being out of the FA Cup now than any other time since the first half of this season, when they weren't ever in it anyway.
John Motson

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Hope spurs humans everywhere to work harder to endure more now that the future may be better.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

43.
As Hoffman later lamented, “The reality distortion field can serve as a spur, but then reality itself hits.
Joanna Hoffman

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True understanding is the spur of genius
Ursula K. Le Guin

45.
Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it.
Francis Quarles

46.
Everything is always spur-of-the-moment. All of my tattoos I decide that second and do it.
Avril Lavigne

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We all have to learn to live with our losses, and to use our regrets to spur us on in the future.
John Christopher

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I think what has happened, actually, is that September 11 has given a spur, a renewed urgency, to dialogue between the great faiths.
George Carey

49.
When you introduce into our schools a spirit of emulation, you have present the keenest spur admissible to the youthful intellect.
Horace Mann

50.
I was disappointed to leave Spurs, but quite pleased that I did.
Steve Perryman