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People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated.… — John Kenneth Galbraith
It wasn't until my late twenties that I learned that by working out I had given myself a great gift. I learned that nothing good… — Henry Rollins
If you have ability in a certain area, why not capitalize on it and improve it and use it? — Wilt Chamberlain
Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a… — Brandon Lee
Perhaps the problem is the seeming need that people have of making black-and-white cutoffs when it comes to certain mysterious phenomena, such as life and… — Douglas Hofstadter
I've never known anyone yet who doesn't suffer a certain restlessness when autumn rolls around... We're all eight years old again and anything is possible. — Sue Grafton
Golf is the only-est sport. You're completely alone with every conceivable opportunity to defeat yourself. Golf brings out your assets and liabilities as a person.… — Hale Irwin
What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers. — Matina Horner
When "news stories" are broken, do we not expect a certain amount of fact-checking or source-checking? One has to ask if this falls under the… — Sheryl Crow
The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs. — Rem Koolhaas
If, then, you wish to insure the interest of your pupils, there is only one way to do it; and that is to make certain… — William James
If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples; if it be unfamiliar, make it figure as part of a story; if… — William James
In all this process of acquiring conceptions, a certain instinctive order is followed. There is a native tendency to assimilate certain kinds of conception at… — William James
Good things don't happen by coincidence. Every dream carries with it certain risks, especially the risk of failure. But I am not stopped by risks.… — Arnold Schwarzenegger
Teamwork does not come naturally. Let's face it. We are born with certain inclinations, but sharing isn't one of them. — Pat Summitt
I think that certain players are going to approach the game differently. I am more of a quiet person. I like to have more of… — Caitlin Lowe
For so long, I was searching for something to be proud of. But at a certain point, I realized, 'Wait, I'm doing what I want… — Pink
Players know how to dribble, shoot and pass. The challenge is to teach them why they should do it a certain way, and when they… — Marv Harshman
Everyone is born with a certain potential. You may never achieve your full potential, but how close you come depends on how much you want… — Red Auerbach
No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy. — Thomas Carlyle

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