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All Quotes Collection
"The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight."
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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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"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 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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"A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions."
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"Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance."
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"From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life."
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"I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't move and you can't take a deep breath. You start to hit the ball about a yard wide, instead of inches."
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"I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments."
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"I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do."
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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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"I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting."
Hope,
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"Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time."
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"If I were to say, "God, why me?" about the bad things, then I should have said, "God, why me?" about the good things that happened in my life."
Life,
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"If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it?"
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"Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke."
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"One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation."
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"Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome."
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"There is a syndrome in sports called "paralysis by analysis.""
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"You look rather rash my dear your colors don't quite match your face."
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"My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind."
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"I can feel the wind go by when I run. It feels good. It feels fast."
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"We don't want to push our ideas on to customers, we simply want to make what they want."
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"We continued to move forward without loss of time, hoping to be able to reach the wood described by the Indians before all our horses should become exhausted."
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"We remained at our encampment of this day until the morning of the 7th, when we descended ten miles lower down and encamped on a spot of ground where several thousand Indians had wintered during the past season."
45
"On my passage thither, I discovered nothing remarkable in the features of the country."
41
"After an unremitting and severe labour of two days, we returned to our old encampment with the loss of some of my horses, and my men excessively fatigued."
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"After the departure of the land parties, I embarked with six men on thursday, the 21st april, on board my newly made boat and began the descent of the river."
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"As my men could profitably employ themselves on these streams, I moved slowly along, averaging not more than five or six miles per day and sometimes remained two days at the same encampment."
40
"Having now reached a point where danger might be reasonably apprehended from strolling war parties of Indians, spies were kept in advance and strict diligence observed in the duty of sentinels."
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"I had the Big Horn river explored from Wind River mountain to my place of embarkation."
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"We were therefore obliged to unload our boats of their cargoes and pass them empty over the falls by means of long cords which we had provided for such purposes."
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"They urged me to take up winter quarters at the forks of the Platt, stating that if I attempted to advance further until spring, I would endanger the lives of my whole party."
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"Several speeches were made by the chiefs during the council, all expressive in the highest degree of their friendly disposition towards our government, and their conduct in every particular manifested the sincerity of their declarations."
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"These mountains appear to be almost entirely composed of stratas of rock of various colours (mostly red) and are partially covered with a dwarfish growth of pine and cedar, which are the only species of timber to be seen."
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"Some of them profess to be well acquainted with all the principal waters of the Columbia, with which they assured me these waters had no connection short of the ocean."
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"The principal or highest part of the mountain having changed its direction to east and west, I ascended it in such manner as to leave its most elevated ranges to the south and travelled north west over a very rough and broken country generally covered with snow."
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"The snow continues with high winds we remain at this camp to day in consequence of the weather."
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"The weather was fine, the valleys literally covered with buffaloe, and everything seemed to promise a safe and speedy movement to the first grove of timber on my route, supposed to be about ten days' march."
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