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“It was a very hard thing to have crushed the heart, and the hopes, of a friend.”
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“If you are not willing to work hard and establish discipline in your life, then all your dreams are merely pipe dreams.”
Source : Rick Pitino (1997). “Success is a Choice: Ten Steps to Overachieving in Business and Life”, Broadway
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“Anthony grinned at her, knowing that would probably infuriate her all the more. "My eyes have been a-wandering, as you put it, for the last nineteen years. Give them a rest, Roslynn. They settled on you and don't want to move on.”
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“The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.”
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“She's a skank. He's a player. He's cute but almost OD'd last year, so he's a bad bet. She's a two-faced, lying, cheating witch. That's right, Trina, I'm talking to you," she shouted. "By the way," she added just for me, "Trina cusses, which means cussing is trashy, which means my golden rule is to never cuss. I have class. Unlike Trina, the ***** of Birmingham." The last part was, of course, shouted.”
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“The writer can grow as a person or he can shrink. ... His curiosity, his reaction to life must not diminish. The fatal thing is to shrink, to be interested in less, sympathetic to less, desiccating to the point where life itself loses its flavor, and one’s passion for human understanding changes to weariness and distaste.”
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“Sixteen- and 17-year-olds pay taxes and can join the army, so surely they should in turn be given their right to vote.”
Source : "Giving the vote to 16-year-olds is a question of democracy" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2008. 
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“That's the result of the black cloud on baseball, .. Until it's rid of steroids, people are naturally going to think that.”
