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“You understand Teacher, don't you, that when you have a mother who's an angel and a father who is a cannibal king, and when you have sailed on the ocean all your whole life, then you don't know just how to behave in school with all the apples and ibexes.”
Source : Astrid Lindgren (1998). “Pippi Goes to School”
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“American traditions and the American ethic require us to be truthful, but the most important reason is that truth is the best propaganda and lies are the worst. To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful. It is as simple as that.”
Source : Testimony before a Congressional Committee, pdaa.publicdiplomacy.org. May 1963.
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“My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.”
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“The worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything else”
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“I did think Justice [Antony] Kennedy's opinion on Lawrence was critical to that because it really, what Lawrence in one sense was, of course, about consensual sex being something that the government can't regulate. But really in a more fundamental sense, what it was saying, "Look. Gay people are normal people, and they get to live normal lives. They're not criminals by virtue of the fact of being gay."”
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“I sing only in Meronian - my own language - but there are also elements of English and Finnish languages in our songs. When we use the spiritual Meronian language, the word 'international' doesn't do justice to our band. This kind of psychic language's means of communication can reach galaxies beyond our planet, not to mention the other living and inanimate entities of our own planet.”
Source : Source: thequietus.com
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“I don't think about the trials and the Olympics a lot. If I do, it's just going to stress me out and get me worried.”
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“Self-esteem means knowing you are the dream.”