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“Accolades and lists may tell us about accomplishments, but life is meant to be experienced, not just accomplished. It's like the difference between reading books for the sake of reading and reading books just to get a good grade.”
Source : "Kid, you are not special" by LZ Granderson, www.cnn.com. June 12, 2012. 
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“In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy.”
Source : Theodor Reik (2002). “Love and Lust: On the Psychoanalysis of Romantic and Sexual Emotions”, p.194, Transaction Publishers
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“I always train and prepare with highest concentration and focus on my next opponent. To me, it does not matter what his name is.”
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“I'm not into red carpet looks where it's clear the woman wanted to look like a pretty, pretty princess.”
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“I thought you said scrying was a bad idea.†“It's like vodka,†Calla said. “It really depends on who's doing it.”
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“A heavy warning used to be given that pictures are not rigorous; this has never had its bluff called and has permanently frightened its victims into playing for safety.”
Source : John Edensor Littlewood, Béla Bollobás (1986). “Littlewood's Miscellany”, p.54, Cambridge University Press
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“Freddie experienced the sort of abysmal soul-sadness which afflicts one of Tolstoy's Russian peasants when, after putting in a heavy day's work strangling his father, beating his wife, and dropping the baby into the city's reservoir, he turns to the cupboards, only to find the vodka bottle empty.”
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“Accept nothing nearly right or good enough”
