Leslie Stephen
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"Sir Leslie Stephen" was an English author, critic and mountaineer, and the father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell.

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Chance is a name for our ignorance.

If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.

The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact.

This game was about as evenly played as you could get. These close games are the kinds that are fun to coach. We were fortunate to come out on top.

If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt.

Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season.

She's throwing well. She's just playing with tremendous confidence. The team has made some great plays behind her. If we get her a couple of runs for a lead, as a coach, it's a great feeling.

The truth cannot be asserted without denouncing the falsehood.

We've been fortunate so far that we've been able to get runs early. When you have the defense we do and Brittany on the mound, that's a lot of confidence for our kids.