"I want to be able to look back and say, 'I've done everything I can, and I was successful.' I don't want to look back and say I should have done this or that. I'd like to change things for the younger generation of swimmers coming along."

-- Michael Phelps

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“The furnace which melts gold, also hardens clay. Before blaming thy fate, therefore, find whether thou art gold or clay.”
“I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer.”
“The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.”
“Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been; I am also call'd No-more, Too-late, Farewell;”

Source : Dante Gabriel Rossetti, “Sonnet XCVII: A Superscription”
“These terrorists aren't trying to kill us because we offended them. They attack us because they want to impose their view of the world on as many people as they can, and America is standing in their way.”
“Nobody wants to admit to this, but bad things will keep on happening. Maybe that's beause it's all a chain, and a long time ago someone did the first bad thing, and that led someone else to do another bad thing, and so on. You know, like that game where you whisper a sentence into someone's ear, and that person whispers it to someone else, and it all comes out wrong in the end. But then again, maybe bad things happen because it's the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.”
“Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.”
“The government forces you to give your money to things you don't believe in, to have your money go to projects that might be inherently immoral.”

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