My salvation was a free gift. I didn’t have to work for it and it’s better than any gold medal that I’ve ever won.
BETTY CUTHBERT
BETTY CUTHBERT
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Betty Cuthbert10 quotes“My salvation was a free gift. I didn’t have to work for it and it’s better than any gold medal that I’ve ever won.”
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I can understand how evolution says, “don’t believe in God”, but I’ve never had this problem.
Betty CuthbertBetty Cuthbert My parents always encouraged me and I had a good home life. We were always taught to respect things and other people. It’s so different today, because children are just not taught the right way.
Betty CuthbertBetty Cuthbert I don’t concentrate on things I can’t do. I do what I can do.
Betty CuthbertBetty Cuthbert You’ve got to stick at a thing, a particular thing, until you succeed.
Betty CuthbertBetty Cuthbert I always felt free when I ran. I suppose that’s what was good about it.
Betty CuthbertBetty Cuthbert No way did I ever think I was going to win the 100m.
Betty CuthbertBetty Cuthbert I realized from a very early age that God gave me a gift, and that gift was to run, and I wanted to use it to the best of my ability.
Betty CuthbertBetty Cuthbert I feel that’s the only way to succeed – by concentrating on something in particular. Once you know what you’ve got to do you will succeed, you will succeed.
Betty CuthbertBetty Cuthbert Everything I did that required effort, I opened my mouth. Even to catch a ball, I opened my mouth.
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Jessica CollinsJessica Collins Between day and night there was a moment of silence.
Frode GaslandFrode Gasland But doesn’t it hurt to feel so much and pretend not to?
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Ana SoulfulAna Soulful Darling, you are a warrior, for even though each day feels like a battle, you keep fighting and live on.
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All men are born free, all have equal rights: never should we lose sight of those principles; according to which never may there be granted to one sex the legitimate right to lay monopolizing hands upon the other, and never may one of the sexes, or classes, arbitrarily possess the other.
Marquis de SadeMarquis de Sade It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else . . .
Kwame NkrumahKwame Nkrumah Before God, there is neither Greek nor barbarian, neither rich nor poor, and the slave is as good as his master, for by birth all men are free; they are citizens of the universal commonwealth which embraces all the world, brethren of one family, and children of God.
Lord ActonLord Acton A free public broadcast license is a privilege.
Bart GordonBart Gordon For all their restlessness, men are who they are; once they put on the man’s toga they will not change again; so they make a virtue of that rigidity and resist whatever might soften it and set them free.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin Do you wish to see clearly and be free?
Bassui TokushoBassui Tokusho There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna What good in a man’s life if it’s not lived free eh?
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