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... the best way to win was to not need to win. The best performances are accomplished when you are relaxed and free of doubt.
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...when a society is reaching its end, in the last couple of centuries you have... a misplacement of satisfactions. You find your emotional satisfaction in making a lot of money... or in proving to the poor, half-naked people in Southeast Asia that you can kill them in large numbers.
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A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
― Henry Ward Beecher
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A career is a job you love, right? That's what a career should be. If you're in a job that you hate, you should quit. That's the way I look at it. I'm in a job that I love, so I'm going to make it my career.
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A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.
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A couple of compromises in a row and suddenly you're very far way from the person you thought you were.
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A dead end can never be a one way street; you can always turn around and take another road.
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A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
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A fellow who has a funny bone can learn to hone his skills, but I don't think you can develop a funny bone - you either have it or you don't. And by the way - when you get it, we don't know it.
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A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
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A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.
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A good teacher feels his way, looking for response.
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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
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A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.
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A guy's who has all the money he needs and never faced any hard times, he won't have any character. But when you've had it tough and you've had it rough and you thought you were at the end of the rope and you work your way out of it, that's the way you build character.
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A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
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A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.
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A house divided against itself cannot stand - I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.
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A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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