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"Every year you work towards a goal. There are steps to success. Michael Jordan played 15 years and won six championships. Were the other nine years a failure?"
-- Giannis Antetokounmpo

"Some days you are able to be successful, some days you are not. Some days it is your turn, and some days it is not your turn. You do not always win. And this year some other team is going to win."
-- Giannis Antetokounmpo

"There is no failure in sports. There is good days, bad days."
-- Giannis Antetokounmpo

"You hurt my feelings by not letting me go outside. You know earlier, I could not go outside so I was still a little sad."
-- Aldie Padernos

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"All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door."
-- Albert Camus

"Look at the technology of agriculture taken to an extreme -- where we have industrialized farms that are not good for the environment or animals or nourishment. Look at a country full of people who have had such convenient access to calories that they're addicted, obese, and sick."
-- Ev Williams

"If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement."
-- Antonio Gramsci

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All terrorism must be condemned and fought equally with unwavering determination. It's only with this moral clarity that the forces of civilization will defeat the savagery of terrorism.

-- Benjamin Netanyahu

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I call on the entire civilized world to unite to defeat the plague of worldwide terrorism.

-- Benjamin Netanyahu

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When a man has fulfilled all four of these requisites--to be wide awake, to have fear, respect, and absolute assurance--there are no mistakes for which he will have to account; under such conditions his actions lose the blundering quality of the acts of a fool. If such a man fails, or suffers a defeat, he will have lost only a battle, and there will be no pitiful regrets over that.

-- Carlos Castaneda

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It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated...it is finished when it surrenders.

-- Ben Stein

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The deepest human defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.

-- Ashley Montague

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I never seek to defeat the man I am fighting, I seek to defeat his confidence. A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory. Two men are equals - true equals - only when they both have equal confidence.

-- Arthur S. Golden

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An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep.

-- Arab Proverb

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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

-- Ann Landers

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