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“Sometimes I'm at home and I remember I'm supposed to do 100 push-ups and I don't.”
Source : "Asafa Powell says it is time to step out of Usain Bolt's shadow". Interview With Anna Kessel, www.theguardian.com. August 20, 2011. 
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“Let us not settle for what is simply 'OK' when we have full information on what can create lasting change.”
Source : "An Open Letter to Starbucks and ‘USA Today’" by Rinku Sen, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2015.
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“A loss is not a failure until you make an excuse.”
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“In the course of writing one historical book or another, it has happened that I could hardly restrain myself from simply copying entire documents. Indeed, I sometimes sank down among the documents and said to myself, I can't improve on these.”
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“I always liked co-ed events best so we have two men and two women on each team.”
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“I sat on the bench by the willows and at my honey bun and read Triton. There are some awful things in the world, it’s true, but there are also some great books. When I grow up I would like to write something that someone could read sitting on a bench on a day that isn’t all that warm and they could sit reading it and totally forget where they were or what time it was so that they were more inside the book than inside their own head. I’d like to write like Delany or Heinlein or Le Guin.”
Source : Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.52, Macmillan
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“The most reliable path to glory is base brute effort.”
Source : "8 Huge, Horrible Questions Nobody Will Ask But You" by Leigh Newman, www.oprah.com. October 29, 2012.
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“The more developed sexual passion, in both sexes, is very largely an emotion of power, domination, or appropriation. There is no state of feeling that says mine, mine, more fiercely.”
