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"To me, the decathlon is its own little society and I am part of that culture."
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"It takes all sorts of people to make a world, as I've often heard, but I think there are some who could be spared,' Anne told her reflection in the east gable mirror that night."
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"Most peoples are prisoners of other people's thoughts."
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Personal Development
"Your water is in the bottles, and my water is in the bucket, but we are brothers? I am collecting garbage, and you are in the bed, but we are sisters? My fingers are broken, and your hands are so soft, but we are family? Your God is like an angel, and my God is like an evil, but we are equal? My stomach is empty, and your stomach is so big, but we are humans?"
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"PLEASE and THANK YOU...two polite phrases which are slowly disappearing from our vocabulary."
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Personal Development
"We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche."
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"Women who don't like the rules change the rules."
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"Large families are communities unto their own."
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"People are very busy; they are so busy that when they walk in the crowds they see no one, no one but themselves; they hear no voice, no voice but their own voice!"
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"Probably the people on the street know better than the people at home."
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"In a materialistic society, the dead body of a rich man's dog is regarded as a corpse; that of a poor man, a carcass."
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"To me, the decathlon is its own little society and I am part of that culture."
Society
"You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one."
Man
"Take pride in exactly what it is you do and remember it's okay to fail as long as you don't give up."
Confidence
"As a young athlete, it was first about having fun; then it was about winning."
Winning
"The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them."
Work
"It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same."
Gold
"As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain."
Pain
"It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me."
Man
"You have to be able to be a good loser. You have to be okay knowing you're going to fail every day in something without getting mad and upset."
Resilience
"There is nothing better than having a personal-best day, being in shape and pushing myself beyond my own limits."
Being
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