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“We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.”
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“I once started out to walk around the world but ended up in Brooklyn, that Bridge was too much for me.”
Source : Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1994). “These are My Rivers: New & Selected Poems, 1955-1993”, p.107, New Directions Publishing
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“Anonymity was nothing more than me wanting to make it about the music and not necessarily the image. Of course, you realize later that by going anonymous, there is an image, and it's mysterious. So that kind of backfired. But it also worked to my advantage, since it certainly got people's attention.”
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“After an All-Blacks surprise loss to the French in the 1999 Rugby World Cup: “The French are predictably unpredictable.”
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“I must tell you that I am committed, as the president of Iraq, to benchmarks and to do our best to achieve some progress forward for national reconciliation.”
Source : Bush Holds a Joint News Conference With Iraqi President Jalal Talabani in the Oval Office, www.washingtonpost.com. May 31, 2007. 
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“She comes from the Midwest. She had me at a very young age and raised me on her own. She's a very hard worker.”
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“Earn the right to be proud and confident.”
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“There are countless ways of achieving greatness, but any road to achieving one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence, and a rejection of mediocrity.”
