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Teofilo Stevenson won his first Olympic gold medal in 1972 and his last world amateur championship in 1986. He won 302 fights and once went an unbelievable 11 years without a loss. Had Cuba not boycotted the 1984 Summer Olympics, many think Stevenson would have won an unmatched four gold medals in boxing.
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That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
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That best portion of a good man's life; His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
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That driving incident, I did it with my dad. I'd sit on his lap and I drive. We're country.
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That feeling is the same whether you're on either side of the hundredths. Obviously, it's great to win the world championship, but if you put down that kind of skiing, it's awesome either way.
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That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.
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That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.
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That one I love who is incapable of ill will, and returns love for hatred. Living beyond the reach of I and mind, and of pain and pleasure, full of mercy, contented, self-controlled, with all his heart and all his mind given to Me - with such a one I am in love.
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That person proves his worth who can make us want to listen when he is with us and think when he is gone.
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That was the toughest thing I ever had to do: tell my son that his mum was gone. I was a bachelor living on the beach, but I had to pull it together very quick for my boy.
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That we should practice what we preach is generally admitted; but anyone who preaches what he and his hearers practice must incur the gravest moral disapprobation.
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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
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That's a wonderful change that's taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends.
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That's his style of hitting . If you can't imitate him, don't copy him.
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That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.
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That's the thing about suicide. Try as you might to remember how a person lived his life, you always end up thinking about how he ended it.
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That's what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does, or could, exist and you want to go there.
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The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.
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The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
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