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“The two most important things to athletes, playing time and money.”
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“To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.”
Source : James M. Whistler (2012). “The Gentle Art of Making Enemies”, p.114, Courier Corporation
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“Humans are a young species, and my little life abides in a very big place, where epochs glide by as swiftly as the mongoose. And strangely enough, when we put our human concerns into their proper, small place, we can turn our attention completely to the small things. To a cricket hidden in a crack of lava. To each other.”
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“I am a colored woman or a Negro woman. Either one is OK. People dislike those words now. Today these use this term African American. It wouldn't occur to me to use that. I prefer to think of myself as an American, that's all!”
Source : Sarah Louise Delany, Annie Elizabeth Delany, Amy Hill Hearth (1993). “Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years”, p.75, Kodansha America
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“Security is something that serves Israeli interests and Palestinian interests. You have a common threat and you have a common enemy and it's important to deal with that as partners.”
Source : "Arafat reluctantly accepts Israeli, U.S. security demand". www.cnn.com. August 11, 1997. 
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“Defeat is worse than death because you live with defeat.”
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“Just as a car parked on a hill will naturally roll backward when shifted into neutral, we will naturally go the wrong way if we shift our Christian lives into neutral and stop seeking to learn and grow as believers.”
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“[T]eaching has been for me an education (Lord knows what it has been for my students).”
