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  • Bode Miller 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.
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • Evelyn Waugh That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.
    Evelyn Waugh
    British novelist (1903 - 1966)
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  • Anne McCaffrey 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.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • Sir William Temple 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.
    Sir William Temple
    British Diplomat, Essayist (1628 - 1699)
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  • Ben Nicholson The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul.
    Ben Nicholson
    English painter (1894 - 1982)
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  • Asa Gray The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Bette Davis The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Paul Auster The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was 'Crime and Punishment'. I put the thing down after reading it in a fever over two or three days... I said, 'If this is what a book can be, then that is what I want to do.
    Source:  (2005)
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Robert Green Ingersoll The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down.
    Robert Green Ingersoll
    American lawyer, a Civil War veteran and politician (1833 - 1899)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Billy Boyd The club thing is a world people can associate with, letting your hair down at the weekend.
    Billy Boyd
    Scottish actor and musician (1968 - )
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  • Bo Bennett The concept of the "good ol' days" must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.
    Source: Year to Success
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Bo Bennett The concept of the 'good ol' days' must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Bob Harper The CrossFit program is broad, general and inclusive, and most of all, the movements can be scaled down to any level of athlete. Just watch what I do with it on 'The Biggest Loser.'
    Bob Harper
    American personal trainer, reality television personality, and author (1965 - )
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  • Horace Greeley The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
    Horace Greeley
    American editor (1811 - 1872)
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  • O. J. Simpson The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.
    O. J. Simpson
     
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  • Bertolt Brecht The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.
    Source: Mother Courage and Her Children
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Bob Marley The devil ain't got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil have his part to play. Devil's a good friend, too... because when you don't know him, that's the time he can mosh you down.
    Bob Marley
    Jamaican singer-songwriter (1945 - 1981)
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  • Lee Iacocca The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.
    Lee Iacocca
    American businessman and CEO of Chrysler (1924 - 2019)
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  • C. S. Lewis The doctrine of the Second Coming teaches us that we do not and cannot know when the world drama will end. The curtain may be rung down at any moment: say, before you have finished reading this paragraph.
    Source: The Worlds Last Night (1952)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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