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“Even if you are a liberal in the Muslim world, when you see Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, and you see all the other reports of abuses by American forces, it's very hard to get up and say, "We should simulate the American ways," because this is the face of America now in the Muslim world, for many Muslims.”
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“I'm incredibly neurotic and a control freak. I like the thought that if there's going to be anyone to blame it's going to be me.”
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“Grief wraps around people, takes them to a place they would not go otherwise.”
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“The man who offers an insult writes it in sand, but for the man who receives it, it's chiseled in bronze.”
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“The one thing that's common to all successful people: They make a habit of doing things that unsuccessful people don't like to do.”
Source : Michael Phelps (2012). “No Limits: The Will to Succeed”, p.51, Simon and Schuster
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“As a dancer I've always checked my body constantly; 'Am I having a good day or am I having a fat day?'”
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“A desire that has never been fulfilled is considerably less acute than one that has been fulfilled and then checked at the source.”
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“Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.”
Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books
