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• I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and dont let anyone tell you you cant. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.

  Magic Johnson

  Dream, Mind, Enough

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• I can't control if people like me; I can't control if people like my game.

  Kevin Garnett

  Games, People, Like Me

  "Sunday Conversation: Kevin Garnett". Interview with Stephen A. Smith, www.espn.com. May 10, 2004.

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• You don't have to be best friends as basketball players but I do believe in chemistry. I think it makes everything different if a team is really together and they're all on that same page. They might not like each other, per se, but if you're on the same page and the chemistry is there, you can play great basketball. You can go back to teams like Detroit, the Bad Boys. Those guys had great chemistry, that's why they won.

  Dwight Howard

  Basketball, Team, Believe

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• One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right if the head is totally wrong. Only through the bringing together of head and heart-intelligence and goodness-shall man rise to a fulfillment of his true nature.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Heart, Men, One Day

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.

  Bayard Rustin

  Brother, Men, Goal

  Bayard Rustin (2012). “I Must Resist: Bayard Rustin's Life in Letters”, p.366, City Lights Publishers

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• If one will always have to feel white first, and African second, it would be better not to stay on in Africa

  Nadine Gordimer

  White, Would Be, Firsts

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• Well, I think the most realistic ways to keep them [Saddam Hussien & Slobadon Milisevic] isolated in the world of public opinion and to work with our alliance is to keep them isolated. I'm just as frustrated as many Americans are that Saddam Hussein still lives. I think we ought to keep the pressure on him. I will tell you this: If we catch him developing weapons of mass destruction in any way, shape or form, I'll deal with that in a way that he won't like.

  George W. Bush

  Thinking, Mass Destruction, Frustrated

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• We also have to work, though, sort of the dark side, if you will. We've got to spend time in the shadows in the intelligence world. A lot of what needs to be done here will have to be done quietly, without any discussion, using sources and methods that are available to our intelligence agencies... That's the world these folks operate in, and so it's going to be vital for us to use any means at our disposal, basically, to achieve our objective.

  Dick Cheney

  Mean, Dark, Agency

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. September 16, 2001.

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• To express your emotions, you have to be very loose and receptive. The unconscious will come to you if you have that gift that artists have. I only know if Im inspired by the results.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Artist, Emotion, Inspired

  "My art is a form of restoration". Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2007.

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• Technology is a compulsive and addictive way to live. Verbal communication cannot be lost because of a lack of skill. The ability to listen and learn is key to mastering the art of communication. If you dont use your verbal skills and networking, it will disappear rapidly. Use technology wisely.

  Rick Pitino

  Art, Communication, Technology

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• WHEN reading my present treatise, bear in mind that by "faith" we do not understand merely that which is uttered with the lips, but also that which is apprehended by the soul, the conviction that the object [of belief] is exactly as it is apprehended. If, as regards real or supposed truths, you content yourself with giving utterance to them in words, without apprehending them or believing in them, especially if you do not seek real truth, you have a very easy task as, in fact, you will find many ignorant people professing articles of faith without connecting any idea with them.

  Maimonides

  Real, Reading, Believe

  Moses Maimonides, Aeterna Press (1948). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.159, Aeterna Press

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• Freedom will destroy itself if it is not exercised within some sort of moral framework, some body of shared beliefs, some spiritual heritage transmitted through the Church, the family, and the school.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Spiritual, School, Church

  Margaret Thatcher (1997). “The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher”, HarperCollins

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• A national debt if it is not excessive will be to us a national blessing; it will be powerfull cement of our union. It will also create a necessity for keeping up taxation to a degree which without being oppressive, will be a spur to industry.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Blessing, Unions, Spurs

  Alexander Hamilton (1850). “The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Correspondence. 1769-1789”, p.257

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• I can't drink a wine if it has an ugly label.

  Bryan Ferry

  Wine, Labels, Ugly

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• It isn't possible to kill part of your “self” unless you kill yourself first. If you ruin your conscious personality, the so-called ego-personality, you deprive the self of its real goal, namely to become real itself. The goal of life is the realization of the self. If you kill yourself you abolish that will of the self to become real, but it may arrest your personal development inasmuch it is not explained. You ought to realise that suicide is murder, since after suicide there remains a corpse exactly as with any ordinary murder. Only it is yourself that has been killed.

  Carl Jung

  Suicide, Real, Self

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• I do not doubt that it would be easier for fate to take away your suffering than it would for me. But you will see for yourself that much has been gained if we succeed in turning your hysterical misery into common unhappiness.

  Sigmund Freud

  Fate, Doubt, Suffering

  "Studies on Hysteria". Book by Sigmund Freud and Josef Breuer, as translated by Nicola Luckhurst (2004), 1895.

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• If the truth of religious doctrines is dependent on an inner experience that bears witness to the truth, what is one to make of the many people who do not have that experience?

  Sigmund Freud

  Religious, People, Doctrine

  "The Future of an Illusion". Book by Sigmund Freud, 1927.

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• True translation is transparent: it does not obscure the original, does not stand in its light, but rather allows pure language, as if strengthened by its own medium, to shine even more fully on the original.

  Walter Benjamin

  Light, Shining, Doe

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• We must have a new mythology, but it must place itself at the service of ideas, it must become a mythology of reason. Mythology must become philosophical, so that the people may become rational, and philosophy must become mythological, so that philosophers may become sensible. If we do not give ideas a form that is aesthetic, i.e., mythological, they will hold no interest for people.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Ideas

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• And now, if we try to assign a value, in and of itself, outside its relations to the dream and with error, to classical unreason, we must understand it not as reason diseased, or as reason lost or alienated, but quite simply as reason dazzled.

  Michel Foucault

  Dream, Errors, Trying

  Michel Foucault (2001). “Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason”, p.101, Psychology Press

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• I have no admiration for culture. I have no reserve knowledge, no provisional knowledge. And everything that I learn, I learn for a particular task, and once it's done, I immediately forget it, so that if ten years later, I have to get involved with something close to or directly within the same subject, I would have to start again from zero, with some few exceptions.

  Gilles Deleuze

  Zero, Years, Tasks

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• New England has two factors to get them ready to play. They've consistently been, if not the best, the second best team all year and they're playing confidently. And a lot of those guys were on field when they lost to LA. They'll take motivation in that.

  Landon Donovan

  Motivation, Team, Years

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• Today, I am blessed to be living a dream. And yet, if it all went away tomorrow, I know I would still have peace.

  Tim Howard

  Dream, Blessed, Today

  "Tim Howard Credits Christian Faith For Giving Him The ‘Gift Of Athleticism’". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 2, 2014.

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• Pheu Thai has to find prominent party leaders that can solve the problems of the country now. If we can find those types of people, then we can win. There are many good people in Thailand but we have to recruit them.

  Thaksin Shinawatra

  Country, Party, Winning

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• I don't mind fans coming up in a friendly, respectful way. That's all part of the fun of being a top tennis player. But if people take pictures without permission, particularly if my children are in the shot, I feel uncomfortable.

  Roger Federer

  Children, Fun, Player

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