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“Achieving a goal is nothing. The getting there is everything.”
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“I haven't been a leader - not at all.”
Source : "Kyrie Irving's Transformation Starts With Admission He Needs LeBron, Cavs' New Vets" by Shams Charania, basketball.realgm.com. August 18, 2014.
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“Ted Cruz is a small-government conservative.”
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“A wasp in a wig is altogether beyond the appliances of art.”
Source : "The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll". Book by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood (p. 146), 1898.
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“The next day brought more visitors. Sarah was eating a simple luncheon with Charis, Ariel, and Guinevere and was experiencing for the first time in her life the pleasure of talking freely with other girls she trusted. It wasn't that they talked about anything of importance. Indeed, most of their conversation was hopelessly trivial- Mordecai would have shaken his head sadly over such frivolity, Sarah reflected with an inward smile. But to talk so openly, and to laugh so unrestrainedly, was somehow far more significant than any single thing that was said.”
Source : Gerald Morris (2004). “The Princess, the Crone, and the Dung-cart Knight”, p.235, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“I was shooting 45 times a game. What was I supposed to do? Pass it into Chris Mihm & Kwame Brown?”
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“It would be very hard to bring a wife to Afghanistan. In America, I'd have no problem with her doing whatever she wanted, but in Afghanistan, that's not the case.”
Source : "A Tale of Two Countries". Interview with Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. December 2005.
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“How can one explain the attraction terror holds for some minds — and why for intellectuals? . . .In a totalitarian and terrorist regime, man is no longer a unique being with infinite possibilities and limitless choices but a number, a puppet, with just this difference — numbers and puppets are not susceptible to fear.”