“Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.”
— Wilma Rudolph
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“God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.”
— Peter Marshall
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“A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.”
— Jeff Bridges
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“I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.”
— Ronald Reagan
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“The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.”
— Channing Pollock
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“It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.”
— Albert Einstein
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“I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.”
— Barack Obama
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“Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.”
— Pindar
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“Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.”
— Plato
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“A great artist is always before his time or behind it.”
— George Edward Moore
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“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.”
— John F. Kennedy
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