I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian. ~Michelle Hunziker
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In a large mass of muscle deprived of its circulation, the rate at which the recovery process can go on, after severe stimulation, depends on the rate at which oxygen can reach the fibres by diffusion. ~Archibald Hill
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It's like there's a moment that happens in baseball, and when it happens, I do everything to concentrate. When you do that, it can be good. ~Miguel Cabrera
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Since one Satan is one too many for me, I would not multiply him. ~Mahatma Gandhi
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Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion. ~Eric Maisel
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If you care, do something. If you don't care, please stay out of the way of those who do. ~Simon Sinek
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If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of life, as we now understand it, about the importance of microbes. I think he would just beam with joy that many of the thoughts and the glimpses of the majesty of life on Earth that he had during his life, now magnified many times over. ~Sylvia Earle
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Each person we meet has the potential to teach us something. ~John C. Maxwell
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Ring out the false, ring in the true. ~Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Courtesy does not exclude courage. ~Spanish Proverb
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To play in the men's tournaments I have to keep getting stronger and get more distance. ~Michelle Wie
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I have always felt that kids are really smart. ~Michelle Trachtenberg
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I love all those girls the same as they love me. I get thousands of letters a week from girls who love me... Every time I sing a song, I make love to them. I'm a boudoir singer. ~Frank Sinatra
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Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her. ~Jean-Michel Basquiat
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The scheme of a game is played on positional lines; the decision of it, as a rule, is effected by combinations. ~Richard Reti
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As teenagers, Marcus had been the muscle and Jake the brains. Marcus had beat up the kids who'd made fun of skinny Jake; Jake had convinced teachers not to punish him. Since then, Marcus had grown a brain and Jake had developed muscles. But habits die hard. ~Gena Showalter
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To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship. ~Sallust
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If you are a really good marathoner, you have to run New York. ~Haile Gebrselassie
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Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed, you have to dissolve the self into these larger universal truths, and explore these deeper mysteries. If it's purely autobiographical and ego-driven, it's going to fail. ~Nick Flynn
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The thing I always say to people is this: "If you avoid failure, you also avoid success." ~Robert Kiyosaki
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A secret is like a dove, when it leaves the hand, it takes wings. ~Saudi Proverb
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I've participated in meetings where there were concerns by ethical experts. There is no clear solution. ~Luc Montagnier
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If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power. ~Billy Sunday
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I'm a mixed race lad from Liverpool. I get to play a lot of hard characters, and some people perceive that's what I'm like, but it's great for me 'cos they're always the most interesting characters. ~Stephen Graham
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This world is run by people who know how to do things. They know how things work. They are equipped. Up there, there is a layer of people who run everything. But we, we are just peasants. We do not understand what is going on, and we cannot do anything. ~Doris Lessing
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