"Every time I go out and race it's a goal to go out and run faster than I've done before."

-- Paula Radcliffe

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“Sometimes people say to you that you should try to be in a bigger film, but it's the way it pans out.”
“Trouble is a thing that will come without our call, but true joy will not spring up without ourselves.”

Source : Simon Patrick (1858). “The works of Symon Patrick: including his autobiography”, p.633
“there is a tendency in part of Wall Street people to pay excessive attention to the most recent figures and the present financial picture.”
“My fictional worlds were those of a fabulist, of an intellectual fantasist. I was the lawgiver, and the countries and inhabitants of my imagination were answerable to me. If I wished for a man to levitate; to enter another's story by rowboat or by intoning a sentence or by performing a shadow-puppet play; if I wanted him to become a swarm of intelligent elementary particles and enter the Internet and travel into the past and far into the future, it was so.”
“Affliction shows the power of Christ's blood, when it gives peace in an hour of trouble, when it can make happy in sickness, poverty, persecution and death. Do not be surprised if you suffer, but glorify God.”
“Even though I had a great deal of respect for children's TV and theatre, it wasn't my intent to specialize solely in that area. I did indeed want to work on shows like "Sesame Street" and I am honored to be even a small part of that legacy, but I also wanted to do characters that had wider vocabulary and satirical humor.”
“Today is the right day to love, believe, do, and mostly, live.”
“If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness, then he who is perfect goodness in sending abroad mortal contagions doth assuredly direct their use.”

Source : Benjamin Franklin, John Woolman (2010). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, the Journal of John Woolman, Fruits of Solitude by William Penn”, p.207, Cosimo, Inc.

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