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"Everybody really wanna be the best. I just wanna be a bit better than them."

"The life you wish you had will come by working like you never have."

"It was an impossible achievement but that didn't stop me from trying and having fun."

"Be a dreamer. Be a doer. Be a perseverer. Be a winner."

"Great dreams do not come to pass greatly at a twinkle of an eye, but you may see them happening at a twinkle of an eye. The best dream which survive greatly in reality takes great roots first before it grows in reality to bear great fruits. Delay is not death! Carefully and patiently nurture your dreams and make them happen distinctively in reality."

"What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one."

"Step up your game and success will step up to you."

"The great take steps to success, the extraordinary take leaps to success, and the remarkable take flight to success."

"To spend your time wanting things is to smother your time for achieving things beyond your expectations."
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"Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade."

"Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die."

"As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both."

"You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else."

"So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality."

"Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist."

"Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss."

"My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them."
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