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It is easy to choose a path of anonymity and lead an empty life. But to strive hard and lead an impactful life, one needs a burning desire to realize dreams.

Path Empty Impactful Desire
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I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it is an illusion to me. Failure always made me try harder the next time.

Fear Illusion Failure Harder
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Champions do not become champions when they win an event, but in the hours, weeks, and months, and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely a demonstration of their championship character.

Champions Hours Spend Preparing
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Don’t ever play with someone’s feelings, you could win the game but you could lose that person forever.

Play Game Lose Person
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I believe that marriage isn’t between a man and woman; but between love and love.

Love Man Woman Marriage
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When you’re happy you enjoy the music, but when you’re sad you understand the lyrics.

Music Happy Lyrics Enjoy
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I’m proud of you for the times you came in second, or third, or fourth, but what you did was the best you had ever done.

Proud Second Best Ever
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It won’t be easy, but nothing worth having ever is.
Ever Easy Nothing Worth
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Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime’s work, but it’s worth the effort.

Truth Lifetime Worth Work
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I’m an African optimist. That doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated by the obstacles I face, but I see those things as opportunities.

African Mean Obstacles Those
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If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
Write Read Book Written
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My relationships isn’t for public consumption, and my heart would not know how to heal properly but in a public way.

Public Heart Heal Relationship
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People will keep criticising when they want exactly what you have. They hate and they talk, but they want what you have. They crave to have what you have. So when they talk, the only way to shut them up is to even do better and up your game.

Game Better Shut Way
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I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

Care Other Think Much
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Imagining something may be the first step in making it happen, but it takes the real time and real efforts of real people to learn things, make things, turn thoughts into deeds or visions into inventions.

Visions Real Effort Turn
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You have good footballers coming out of Africa, West Africa, but they are not on the level that Eto'o played.

Africa Coming Footballers Good
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I am called a legend, and people see me as one, but because of that, I don't think I should have to hide at home and only go on holidays, drink champagne, and watch TV. I am somebody that wants to impact onto people's lives.

Because Champagne Drink Hide
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At times, I didn't play, but I was still the best - that's how I saw it. If I get 15, 20 minutes, I will do what I have to do and make an impact.

Best Get How Impact
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When good things are coming, there are always some people who haven't been doing good who will try and stop it. But if you believe in what you are doing and are strong enough, then you achieve it. People know who I am and what I have done.

Achieve Always Been Believe
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When you're growing up, you have your heroes, and you hear about people going off to other countries to play football, but when you're so young, you're not thinking about that. You just play. No referee, no rules.

Countries Football Going Growing
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You can have an ankle or shoulder injury, and in six or eight months, you're healed. But if the heart stops for a few moments, that's it.

Ankle Eight Few Healed
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It is, I think, enough for me to say that life itself is, from the cradle to the grave, a series of unbroken risks. I make no boast about this, but those who know me intimately will testify to the fact that I have never, at any time, shrunk from taking my full share of the risks which life, with its unending opportunities and vicissitudes, offers.

Enough Life Series Unbroken
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I think I just have to control what I can control. I can control myself. I can't control anything else but what I do. I definitely know I can do a better job at that.

Anything Better Control Definitely
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I don't think the lifestyle that I have, the things going on in my life right now, you could put that on any 23-year-old kid. But, you know, I was raised right, and I'm prepared for whatever.

Any Could Going Kid
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I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.

Could Entire Genetics Given
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It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.

Advance Foolishly Great Individuality
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Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.

Moment Ennobles Place Great
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It may be only glory that we seek here, but I persuade myself that, as long as we remain here, that is right. Another glory awaits us in heaven and he who reaches there will not wish even to think of earthly fame.

Glory Reaches Earthly Fame
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To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.

About Always Better Day
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To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.

Anything Back Cold Danger
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The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.

Bed Bodies Bundle Early
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Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all.

Despised Holiday Worth Father
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To the Pilgrim Mothers, who not only had their full share of the hardships and privations of pioneer life but also had the Pilgrim Fathers to endure.

Full Share Pioneer Life
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A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

Animal Children Cold Common
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Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.

About Acquiring Debts Fun
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Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?

Buy Buying Certainly Ever
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Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.

About Argument Came Doctor
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I am loved by thousands, but I feel like the loneliest man in the world.

Love Loneliest Man World
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I got married in Florence, Italy. My husband and I were in love but totally broke, so we eloped and got married in Italy, where he was going on a business trip. We had to pull a guy off the street to be our witness. It was incredibly romantic. Florence is still one of my favorite cities in the world.

Broke Business Cities Favorite
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I love to be scared. Not, 'Hey, I think I smell smoke...' scared, but creepy, paranoid, what's-that-out-there-in-the-dark, ghost story scared. It's no surprise that I was the girl who got invited to the slumber parties because I could be counted on to tell a tale to scare the bejesus out of you.

Because Could Counted Creepy
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I was a big reader as a kid, but it was 'Charlotte's Web' that showed me you could feel as if you were actually living inside a book.

Actually Big Book Charlotte
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We're comfortable with women in certain roles but not comfortable with women expressing anger or fully accepting their power. The most daring question a woman can ask is, 'What do I want?

Accepting Anger As Certain
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My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.

Always Champ Dad Down
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In terms of love, you're not in control and I hate that feeling. I seem to write a lot of sad songs because I'm a very tragic person. But there's always an element of humour at the end.

Hate Write Tragic Person
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Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved.

Biologists Constantly Designed Evolved
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When you treat people well, those same people might not treat you the same way. But if you pay attention, you’ll notice that God has sent other people who treat you even better.

Treat People Attention God
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In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy and especially dislike reading experimental papers. He (René Thom) seemed to have very strong biological intuitions but unfortunately of negative sign.

Intellectually Strong Biology Lazy
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Sometimes you meet people with very little knowledge, very humble jobs, and in no leadership role but they put you to shame with their good character and you can’t help but wonder if it’s that special connection that they have with God that causes them to tread the earth so lightly.

Knowledge Humble Leadership Character
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Kind words cost you nothing but are sometimes worth more than a million dollars.
Kind Cost Worth Million
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Sometimes you wish you never met certain people, then you grow and realize that they were a gift in disguise and contributed to making you the person you are.

Wish People Realise Gift
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