“My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.”
— Bjorn Borg
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“Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.”
— Thomas Carlyle
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“My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.”
— Oprah Winfrey
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“A great artist is a great man in a great child.”
— Victor Hugo
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“Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.”
— Paracelsus
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“Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.”
— George Bernard Shaw
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“Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.”
— Henry David Thoreau
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“To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.”
— Fred Durst
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“All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.”
— Orison Swett Marden
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“There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.”
— Niels Bohr
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“Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.”
— Frederic Bastiat
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