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It’s like having a pet dog for a long time. You get attached to it, and when it dies you miss it.

Jesse Owens

It’s like having a pet dog for a long time. You get attached to it, and when it dies you miss it.
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Animal Attachment Death Dog Time
When I came back, after all those stories about Hitler and his snub, I came back to my native country, and I could not ride in the front of the bus. I had to go to the back door. I couldn’t live where I wanted. Now what’s the difference?
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Country Difference Live Myself Story
One chance is all you need.
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Chance Need One Liner Oneself Yourself
When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad taste in criticizing the man of the hour in Germany.
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Hands Himself Man Myself Thinking
Find the good. It’s all around you. Find it, showcase it and you’ll start believing in it.
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Believe Goodness Start Yourself
It dawned on me with blinding brightness. I realized: I had jumped into another rare kind of stratosphere – one that only a handful of people in every generation are lucky enough to know.
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Bright Enough Hands Kind Morning Myself People
I always loved running. It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power.
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Love Myself Power Run Sports Yourself
Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
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Friendship Reward
Although I wasn’t invited to shake hands with Hitler, I wasn’t invited to the White House to shake hands with the President either.
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Hands Myself Sarcastic
The black fist is a meaningless symbol. When you open it, you have nothing but fingers – weak, empty fingers. The only time the black fist has significance is when there’s money inside. There’s where the power lies.
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Black Fingers Money Power Time Yourself
The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.
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Bond Human Relationship Worth
The only victory that counts is the one over yourself.
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Inspirational Oneself Victory Yourself
The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself – the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us – that’s where it’s at.
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Battle Gold Oneself Reward Struggle
After I came home from the 1936 Olympics with my four medals, it became increasingly apparent that everyone was going to slap me on the back, want to shake my hand or have me up to their suite. But no one was going to offer me a job.
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Hands Home Job Myself Oneself Reward
The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations. A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
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Best Life Live Man Oneself Time Training
I decided I wasn’t going to come down. I was going to fly. I was going to stay up in the air forever.
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Decision Forever Myself Stay

It’s like having a pet dog for a long time. You get attached to it, and when it dies you miss it.

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