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“Everything that happens-good and bad-should motivate you to be persistent.”
Source : Jim Tressel (2010). “The Winners Manual: For the Game of Life”, p.136, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
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“The strength of collective decision making and political responsibility is not only a question of recognizing other people's ability. It is also recognizing one's own limitations.”
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“Faced with a choice of stepping up or stepping it down, we are going to step it down.”
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“I need contrast-the old and the new, the rough and the soft. The clash of it all is very sexy.”
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“If you try you may fail, if you don't try you're guaranteed to fail.”
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“We turned on one another deep, drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss that reduced my bones to rubber and my brain to gruel.”
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“The flag of the United States has not been created by rhetorical sentences in declarations of independence and in bills of rights. It has been created by the experience of a great people, and nothing is written upon it that has not been written by their life. It is the embodiment, not of a sentiment, but of a history...”
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“I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom”
Source : "No Easy Answers: An Interview with James Q. Wilson". Interview with William D. Eggers and John O'Leary, reason.com. February 1, 1995. 
