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“There are forces in life working for you and against you. One must distinguish the beneficial forces from the malevolent ones and choose correctly between them.”
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“Graduation day was a milestone in the most important journey of all - to the centre of oneself.”
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“But now I salute you who follow me,It is my time to stand at ease ... content.”
Source : "Vokes - My Story" by Chris Vokes, John Philip Maclean, (p. 232), 1985.
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“I hate playing the bass, bro. I've been playing the bass because it's there and I don't want anyone else to play it.”
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“To be a father is not simply to bring a child into this world. It is to take care of that child and to give him direction and guidance. It's my mother who always did this for me. I'm surprised that today, because of the World Cup and because the cameras are on my father, that he puts on that jersey and speaks of his son. It's not going to change things because of a World Cup.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.”
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“Read obituaries. They are just like biographies, only shorter. They remind us that interesting, successful people rarely lead orderly, linear lives.”
Source : Charles Wheelan (2012). “10 1⁄2 Things No Commencement Speaker Has Ever Said”, p.67, W. W. Norton & Company
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“Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.”
Source : "Globalization and After". Book edited by Samir Dasgupta and Ray Kiely, 2006.