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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."
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"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."
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"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."
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"We started with that, basically to help kids, and then we created a pole vault school, which is part of the club and exists to this day. The club and school exist."
Education

"I am alone, some people help me, but, basically, I can do what I want."
People

"Sports life is very short."
Life

"I think that, generally, you need to live with your sport 24 hours a day."
Dedication

"You need to work very hard, you have to spend a lot of time practicing your sport - six to seven hours daily."
Time

"The strategy of my coach and me was that we looked at pictures of all the best pole vaulters from around the world, and we took the best parts from them, and we created a person that had never existed. We then started to work toward being such a person."
Work

"My policy was just to give good things for sports in my region."
Sports

"I have bought pole vault equipment, the landing areas, posts, which costs a lot of money. We pay for coaches."
Money

"Today I have 35 people who work in the club and associated businesses."
Work

"The Olympics are always a special competition, it is very difficult to predict what will happen."
Competition
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