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There are a lot of kicks out there in taekwondo that are flashy, so I like all of those. My favourite is probably chop because I'm better at it than the others. But I like a good back kick if I can nail it well.
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There are cases where psychoanalysis works worse than anything else. But who said that psychoanalysis was to be applied always and everywhere.
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There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
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There are far more important things in life than making a putt or missing a putt or winning a championship or losing a championship.
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There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.
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There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.
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There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
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There are few more melancholy spectacles than the litter of a room after the last guest has said 'goodbye'.
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There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.
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There are few surer ways to become disliked by men than to perform well where they have performed poorly.
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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please - that is, as they please or displease us.
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There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior to anything we ourselves possess. It augurs not merely an unfairness on the part of creation, but a lack of artistic judgment. Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.
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There are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement.
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There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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There are lots of risks, but without risks, there's no reward. I think the reward is bigger than the risk.
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There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
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