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I skate for the fans. It's not as fun without them there supporting me. I get energy from them and I want to skate well…
— Evgeni Plushenko
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In sports... you play from the time you're eight years old, and then you're done forever.
— Joe Montana
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It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television…
— Shirley Chisholm
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I'm playing baseball because I love it, not because I need the money or attention. That is why I've been so dedicated. I've accomplished a…
— Mike Piazza
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Wake up, dream, have the ambition to do the things you have always dreamed of, go farther than any man has ever been before, go…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Invention strictly speaking, is little more than a new combination of those images which have been previously gathered and deposited in the memory; nothing can…
— Joshua Reynolds
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Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for otherwise a state might be…
— Aristotle
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Courage allows the successful woman to fail - and to learn powerful lessons from the failure - so that in the end, she didn't fail…
— Maya Angelou
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God wants nothing from you but the gift of a peaceful heart.
— Meister Eckhart
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How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft.…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
— Laozi
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From politics it was an easy step to silence.
— Jane Austen
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I am simply submerged in work from five in the morning to eleven at night; almost need a few days off to escape a breakdown!
— Richard Neutra
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The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all…
— Honore de Balzac
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The first gesture of an architect is to draw a perimeter; in other words, to separate the microclimate from the macro space outside. This in…
— Unknown Author
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It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man.
— Michelangelo
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I believe Bobby Orr had the greatest impact of any player to come along in my lifetime. He earned his place in hockey history by…
— Jean Beliveau
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Stop saying athletes do it for the love of the game. They do it for the love of their 32-room mansion with the live shark…
— Bill Maher
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I was a multi-millionaire from playing hockey. Then I got divorced, and now I'm a millionaire.
— Bobby Hull
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I think the game has gotten better. (The two-ref system) keeps players from taking cheap shots behind the play. I never thought I'd like it,…
— Brian Skrudland
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Never speak out of anger, Never act out of fear, Never choose from impatience, But wait... and peace will appear.
— Guy Finley
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He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
— Michel de Montaigne
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It often happens that we pray God to deliver us from some dangerous temptation, and yet God does not hear us but permits the temptation…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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When I immersed myself in prayer and united myself with all the Masses that were being celebrated all over the world at that time, I…
— Mary Faustina Kowalska
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The little estimate we put on prayer is evidence from the little time we give to it.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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