In running, it doesn't matter how fast or slow you are relative to anyone else. You set your own pace and you measure your own progress. You can't lose this race because you're not running against anyone else. You're only running against yourself, and as long as you are running, you are winning. ~Amby Burfoot
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A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity. ~Yiddish Proverb
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I have my own voice and can focus only on that. I know what I like; I find my inspirations in so many other places than just online and bring that into my work. ~Hanneli Mustaparta
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And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Your prosperity will only grow as fast as you do. ~Randy Gage
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If I could only have one more day, I could do a great painting. ~Fritz Scholder
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Only he deserves power who every day justifies it. ~Dag Hammarskjold
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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. ~George Herbert
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In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli. ~Jerome Bruner
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Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one is never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them. ~Aldous Huxley
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The man who would choose security over freedom deserves neither. ~Thomas Jefferson
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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. ~George Bernard Shaw
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I realized that even in a world of proliferating media venues, online and in print, and on TV and on countless cable channels, the idea that I could be considered an expert on chronic knee pain was I think troubling for society, but very exciting for me. ~John Hodgman
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I shall never get used to not being the most beautiful woman in the room. It was an intoxication to sweep in and know every man had turned his head. It kept me in form. ~Lady Randolph Churchill
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A hedge between keeps friendship green. ~French Proverb
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If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot. ~Korean Proverb
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Sometimes you need to distance yourself to see things clearly. ~John Spence
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I have always felt that kids are really smart. ~Michelle Trachtenberg
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There's no "brothers" when it comes to white people. We are just complete individuals. We don't care about each other. He's not my brother; my brother lives in Ohio; I don't know that guy. ~Bill Burr
#quotes #bill-burr #brotherhood #ohio

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. ~Louis D. Brandeis
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Faith itself cannot accomplish anything, yet without faith, no one can fly. ~Charles R. Swindoll
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. ~Zen Proverb
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But we'd never really seen eye to eye. Mostly 'cause he was much taller than I was. ~Darynda Jones
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The head of a ship however has not always an immediate relation to her name, at least in the British navy. ~William Falconer
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Whose diggeth a pit shall fall therein. ~Proverb
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