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  • Cate Campbell Swimming a 50 m is like playing the pokies: you push a button, and you never know what is going come up; it may be a mixed bag.
    Cate Campbell
    Malawian-born Australian athlete (1992 - )
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  • Frederick Frieseke Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are you riding with it? Or are you rowing against it? Don't you see that there is no effort if you're riding with your river?
    Frederick Frieseke
    American-born French painter (1874 - 1939)
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  • Barack Obama Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes," he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. "Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bill Nye Television isn't inherently good or bad. You go to a bookstore, there are how many thousands of books, but how many of those do you want? Five? Television's the same way. If you're going to show people stuff, television is the way to go. Words and pictures show things.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Dale Carnegie Tell the audience what you're going to say, say it; then tell them what you've said.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Barry McCaffrey Thank God we're going to try to continue and effectively defend our frontiers with the Border Patrol, with the Customs Department, with the Coast Guard, with the Armed Forces.
    Barry McCaffrey
    American Army officer, professor and business consultant (1942 - )
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  • Bill Goldberg That feeling is one of the things that keep me going. On July 6, 1998, I became the WCW heavyweight champion of the world!
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Bruce Hornsby That person who's going to a concert for a nostalgic reason, we're not really going to placate. We still play three or four hits every night. Now, we don't play them like the record. We try to find new ways to do it.
    Bruce Hornsby
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1954 - )
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  • Belle Livingstone That winter two things happened which made me see that the world, the flesh, and the devil were going to be more powerful influences in my life after all than the chapel bell. First, I tasted champagne, second, the theatre.
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  • Al Jarreau That's the way I try to live. I think it's the only way for human beings at this point in our evolution as souls, where everyone in their lifetime is going through stuff.
    Al Jarreau
    American singer and musician (1940 - 2017)
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  • Bill Walton That's what makes it so fun to be on a team. You're sitting at your house, thinking up this wild, crazy stuff as to how it's going to go, and the other guys are sitting at their houses doing the same thing.
    Bill Walton
    American basketball player (1952 - )
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  • Henry Ward Beecher The advertisements in a newspaper are more full of knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Bernardine Dohrn The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable... those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over.
    Bernardine Dohrn
    American law professor and activist
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  • George Orwell The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Philip Crosby The audience only pays attention as long as you know where you are going.
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  • Brad D. Smith The average small-business owner uses 18 apps to run their business every day, and if those applications don't allow data to flow seamlessly and they don't integrate, it's going to become a point of friction. It's going to prevent the small business from being successful.
    Brad D. Smith
    American businessman
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  • Carl Lewis The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.
    Carl Lewis
    American athlete (1961 - )
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  • Victoria Billings The best thing that could happen to motherhood already has. Fewer women are going into it.
    Victoria Billings
    American writer
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  • Branford Marsalis The biggest problem with American music right now, is that kids don't listen. They come by it honestly, Americans don't listen anyway. When people go to concerts, they say I'm going to see... not, I'm going to hear.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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