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  • John Wooden Never mistake activity for achievement.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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  • Barry Lopez No culture has yet solved the dilemma each has faced with the growth of a conscious mind: how to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in all life, when one finds darkness not only in one's own culture but within oneself... There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of a leaning into the light.
    Source: Arctic Dreams
    Barry Lopez
    American author (1945 - )
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  • John Wooden No one can really honestly be the very best, no one.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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  • James Baldwin Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • John Wooden Nothing will work unless you do.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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  • Amelia Earhart Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it.
    Amelia Earhart
    American aviation pioneer and author (1897 - 1937)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Of all the works of man I like best
    Those which have been used.
    The copper pots with their dents and flattened edges
    The knives and forks whose wooden handles
    Have been worn away by many hands: such forms
    Seemed to me the noblest.
    Source: Poems, 1913-1956 Of all the works of man [Von allen Werken] (c. 193
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Ben Carson Over the years my mother's steadfast faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I had to perform extremely difficult surgical procedures or when I found myself faced with my own medical scare.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • John Wooden Passion is momentary; love is enduring.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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  • Graham Greene Reality in our century is not something to be faced.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • Bill Keller Since September 11 2001, editors in America have faced some excruciating choices, as the attempt to wage a war against a new kind of enemy sometimes strained the boundaries of our laws and values.
    Bill Keller
    American journalist (1949 - )
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch Someone will always hate what I say. There's always going to be somebody spitting blood about my wooden-faced, toffee-named, crappy acting.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Lewis Thomas Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breath.
    Lewis Thomas
    American arts (1913 - 1993)
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  • Alexander Haig Sooner or later something had to give. But President Bush, faced with the unprecedented affront of 9-11, could not wait to take action. So he had to do what we were capable of doing, and he did it brilliantly.
    Alexander Haig
    American politician (1924 - 2010)
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  • John Wooden Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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  • John Wooden Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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  • John Wooden Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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  • Buzz Aldrin The big companies are the private industry. But they're faced with a short-term need to show a profit in short-term.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Caitlin Moran The doughy-faced woman has been forced to sit on the sidelines of culture for too long, and it's now time for us to stand up with our big round faces like the moon and say we have things to say, too. We have a round-faced agenda we want to push.
    Caitlin Moran
    English journalist, author, and broadcaster (1975 - )
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  • Joseph Conrad The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for a treacherous stab.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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