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“Invest in the human family. Invest in people. Build a little community of those you love and who love you.”
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“To talk about something like prostitution, the other person then becomes the wild card that will have a response, and it may not be the response you want. Sometimes I think saying it would be selfish to tell them is still being under the illusion that you have all the power. You say it would be selfish to tell them, when in fact you're scared that in telling them, it gives them the power to do what they might want to do because once they know, they become somebody who could be reactive.”
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“I'd try to channel my nervous energy in a positive way into strength and endurance. It didn't always work.”
Source : "'92 Olympian Yamaguchi balances road, family". Interview with Suzanne Riss, www.cnn.com. February 23, 2010.
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“Decisions, particularly important ones, have always made me sleepy, perhaps because I know that I will have to make them by instinct, and thinking things out is only what other people tell me I should do.”
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“If they're not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way.”
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“Even in social life, it is persistency which attracts confidence, more than talents and accomplishments.”
Source : Edwin Percy Whipple (1866). “Character and Characteristic Men”, p.14
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“Two sorts of peace are more to be dreaded than all the troubles in the world — peace with sin, and peace in sin.”
Source : Joseph Alleine, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “Alarm to the Unconverted”, Lulu.com
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“I love driving the cool cars, but there is nothing like driving a pickup truck.”