Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.
ARTHUR ASHETrue 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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Fear isn’t an excuse to come to a standstill. It’s the impetus to step up and strike.
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I have always tried to be true to myself, to pick those battles I felt were important. My ultimate responsibility is to myself. I could never be anything else.
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Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
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I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner.
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Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.
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Fear isn’t an excuse to come to a standstill. It’s the impetus to step up and strike.
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Always have the situation under control, even if losing. Never betray an inward sense of defeat.
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Life is like a tennis game. You can’t win without serving.
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Life is like a tennis game. You can’t win without serving.
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In America you’re conditioned to regard everything as a contest. You have to make the Ten Best Dressed List, win this, win that. It drives me nuts sometimes. Who cares, for Christ’s sake?
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I take the good with the bad, and I try to face them both with as much calm and dignity as I can muster.
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It’s an abnormal world I live in. I don’t belong anywhere. It’s like I’m floating down the middle. I’m never quite sure where I am.
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I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.
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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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The best way to judge a life is to ask yourself, “Did I make the best use of the time I had?
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If I don’t ask “Why me?” after my victories, I cannot ask “Why me?” after my setbacks and disasters.
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I know I could never forgive myself if I elected to live without humane purpose, without trying to help the poor and unfortunate, without recognizing that perhaps the purest joy in life comes with trying to help others.
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The best way to judge a life is to ask yourself, “Did I make the best use of the time I had?
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I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.
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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.
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When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
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My humanity, in common with all of God’s children, gives the greatest flight to my full range of my possibilities.
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With what we give, we make a life.
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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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It is not just the more talented player who wins. Some players may try a little harder.
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When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.
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