"In Athens I was 17 and I didn't have any expectations. I was just swimming fast and racing everybody. I didn't have the joy after my races in 2007. I didn't want to go to Beijing. I had to for sponsors."

-- Laure Manaudou

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“The disclosure of a new fact, the leap forward, the conquest over yesterday's ignorance, is an act not of reason but of imagination, of intuition.”
“Here, whatever is not boring is not English.”
“I see, from my vantage point as the vice-chair of the Legal Services Corporation, a serious crisis going on in this country. Eighty percent of low-income people have no access to the civil justice system, meaning anything but criminal law.”
“Medicare is paid for by the American taxpayer. Medicare belongs to you. Medicare is for seniors, who many of them are on fixed income, to lift them out of poverty.”
“One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.”
“It provides a different type of element and mental strain athletes love. That's what makes the game of golf so special.”
“I am arguing that faith as such, faith as an alleged method of acquiring knowledge, is totally invalid and as a consequence, all propositions of faith, because they lack rational demonstration, must conflict with reason.”

Source : George H. Smith (2010). “Atheism: The Case Against God”, p.120, Prometheus Books
“I would like to raise my glass to friendship between Russia and the United States.”

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