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I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

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Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams. They have different names but all contain water. Religions have different names, but all contain truth.

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The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

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I am the greatest. Not only do I knock em out, I pick the round!

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When you're as great as I am, it's hard to be humble

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The fight is won or lost far away from witnessesbehind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

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Whereas the degrees of rationality vary and some minds are distinguished over others, these clerks, if not convinced of what the Pasha has given them, must turn to their associates with the problem, and if all see an excess or shortcoming in the matter, then they should turn to the Pasha and present the requisite information.

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Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

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There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

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The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

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We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.

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Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? No I

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I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

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Where do you think I'd be next week if I didn't know how to shout and holler and make the public take notice? I'd be poor and I'd probably be down in my home town, washing windows or running an elevator and saying

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I hated every minute of training, but I said, Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.

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O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall.

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These have not the hope to die.

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Avarice, envy, pride,Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of allOn Fire.

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He listens well who takes notes.

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There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, and sand eddies in a whirlwind.

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