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“If you don't want the nickname, don't live up to it.”
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“The dachshund is a perfectly engineered dog. It is precisely long enough for a single standard stroke of the back, but you aren't paying for any superfluous leg.”
Source : Mary Doria Russell (2008). “Dreamers Of The Day”, p.38, Random House
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“My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.”
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“A soldier is he whose blood makes the glory of the general.”
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“Here above the farms and ranches of the Great Plains aviation lives up to the promise that inspired dreamers through the ages. Here you are truly separate from the earth, at least for a little while, removed from the cares and concerns that occupy you on the ground. This separation from the earth is more than symbolic, more than a physical removal-it has an emotional dimension as tangible as the wood, fabric, and steel that has transported you aloft.”
Source : Stephen Coonts (2010). “The Cannibal Queen: A Flight Into the Heart of America”, p.13, Open Road Media
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“Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.”
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“I didn't aspire to be a good sport; 'champion' was good enough for me.”
Source : "Tennis Confidential: Today's Greatest Players, Matches, and Controversies" by Paul Fein, (p. 146), 2003.
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“Outside ideas of right doing and wrong doing there is a field. I'll meet you there.”
