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“But I don't begrudge anybody, because I know how hard it is to have that dream and to make it happen, whether or not it's just to put a roof over your head and food on the table.”
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“I've never made a mistake. I've only learned from experience.”
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“Now I felt like I was drifting, sucked down by an undertow, and too far out to swim back to the shore.”
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“We've all heard of Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross's five stages of grief: denial, anger, bagaining, depression and acceptance. Â By contrats, I realized, happiness has four stages. Â to eke out the most happiness from an experience, we must anticipate it, savor it as it unfolds, express happiness, and recall a happy memory.”
Source : "'On Death and Dying' Author, Kubler-Ross, Dies at 78" by The Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. August 25, 2004.
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“We are all blind until we see That in the human plan Nothing is worth the making If it does not make the man. Why build these cities glorious If man unbuilded goes? We build the world in vain Unless the builders also grow.”
Source : Edwin Markham (1920). “Gates of Paradise and Other Poems: The Fourth Volume of Verse”
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“As an outsider in America, you do see the kind of hypocrisy that's rampant there.”
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“Well, I got to have a project. I'm not a blue-sky guy at all. I'd never let anybody like me loose in a company.”
Source : "Remember This?" by Alec Wilkinson, www.newyorker.com. May 28, 2007.
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“If I had only one more round to play, I would choose to play it at Pebble Beach. I've loved this course from the first time I saw it. It's possibly the best in the world.”