You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
ARTHUR ASHEI guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do.
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Martina’s like the old Green Bay Packers. You know exactly what she’s going to do, but there isn’t a thing you can do about it.
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You’ve got to make a lot of sacrifices and spend a lot of time if you really want to achieve with this sport, or in any sport, or in anything truly worthwhile.
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We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.
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You’ve got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.
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A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
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Do not feel sorry for me if I am gone.
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We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.
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I may not be walking with you all the way, or even much of the way, as I walk with you now.
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True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.
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Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
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The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.
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I’m learning to use others’ weaknesses. I don’t hammer a man’s soft spot constantly, because he may strengthen it. I just save it as a trump up my sleeve for moments when I really need a point.
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You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
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Drummed into me, above all, by my dad, by the whole family, was that without your good name, you would be nothing.
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Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The current definitive answer to almost any question can be found within the four walls of most libraries.
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