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There are times when fear is not our enemy. There are times when fear is our truest, sometimes only, friend.
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But if I'm it, the last of my kind, the last page of human history, like hell I'm going to let the…
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To show mercy is not naïve. To hold out against the end of hope is not stupidity or madness. It is fundamentally…
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A man lies upon the floor, spreads his arms, and transforms himself into a ship of a thousand sails.
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So often the monsters that crowd our minds are nothing more than the strange and thoroughly alien progeny of our own fearful…
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What boy my age didn’t dream of fleeing the well-tended lawn and lamp-lit street for the untamed wilderness, where grand adventure awaited…
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To hold on, you have to find something you’re willing to die for.
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You never know when the truth will come home. You can't choose the time. The time chooses you.
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Maybe you reach a certain point in evolution where boredom is the greatest threat to your survival. Maybe this isn't a planetary…
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When you look death in the eye and death blinks first, nothing seems impossible.
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A miscalculation is not negligence, nor prudence a crime. I am a scientist. I base my action or inaction upon probability and…
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How oft do they rescue or ruin us, through whimsy or design or a combination of both, the adults to whom we…
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I really reject that kind of comparison that says, Oh, he is the best. This is the second best. There is no…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.
— Tommy Lasorda
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Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.
— Bertrand Russell
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If you get depressed about being the second-best team in the world, then you've got a problem.
— Julius Erving
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People don't pay much attention to you when you are second best. I wanted to see what it felt like to be…
— Florence Griffith Joyner
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Why be second best at anything?
— Paul Heyman
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They're the second best team in the world, and there's no higher praise than that.
— Kevin Keegan
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When you ask one friend to dine, Give him your best wine! When you ask two, The second best will do!
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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What I look for is a man who can be a friend, someone who is an equal and one with whom I…
— Jennifer Aniston
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No matter what you do, give it everything you have. Be the best, not the second best.
— Michael Jackson
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When the writer has done his best, he then should proceed to do his second best.
— Edward Abbey
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For me, the international expansion of eBay was the best idea. We are now in 35 countries, and have a huge global…
— Meg Whitman
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