"As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you - but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals."
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"Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?"
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"It is never too late to be who you want to be."
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"I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making."
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"Each man lives for himself, uses his freedom to achieve his personal goals, and feels with his whole being that right now he can or cannot do such-and-such an action; but as soon as he does it, this action, committed at a certain moment in time, becomes irreversible, and makes itself the property of history, in which is has not a free but a predestined significance."
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"One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe."
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"That's a very high goal to have, study eight hours a day to be a concert pianist."
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"U.S. international and security policy . . . has as its primary goal the preservation of what we might call "the Fifth Freedom," understood crudely but with a fair degree of accuracy as the freedom to rob, to exploit and to dominate, to undertake any course of action to ensure that existing privilege is protected and advanced."
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"We do not for example say that the person has a perfect knowledge of some language L similar to English but still different from it. What we say is that the child or foreigner has a 'partial knowledge of English' or is 'on his or her way' towards acquiring knowledge of English, and if they reach this goal, they will then know English."
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"Social media has totally transformed the way we communicate with each other and the way we provide for needs as we see them. I've always believed that if somebody looks good, they invariably are going to feel good. And it's self-fulfilling, because you'll just relax, you'll smile, you'll think you own the world. But if you also do good, you'll feel even better. So my goal is to make what we do meaningful in as many people's lives as we can."
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"Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet."
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"Make each day count by setting specific goals to succeed, then putting forth every effort to exceed your own expectations."
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"Learning to sing one's own songs, to trust the particular cadences of own's voices, is also the goal of any writer."
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"Utopias rest on the fallacy that perfection is a legitimate goal of human existence."
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"Let us beware of saying there are laws in nature. There are only necessities: there is no one to command, no one to obey, no one to transgress. When you realize there are no goals or objectives, then you realize, too, that there is no chance: for only in a world of objectives does the word chance have any meaning."
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"The concepts "beyond" and "real world" were invented in order to depreciate the only world that exists-in order that no goal, no aim or task might be left for our earthly reality."
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"My philosophy is inverted Platonism: the further a thing is from true being, the purer, the lovelier, the better it is. Living inillusion as a goal!"
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"Sometimes the path you're on is not as important as the direction you're heading."
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"In order to achieve goals you have not achieved before you have to become someone you haven't been before."
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"Set the kind of goals that will make something of you to achieve them."
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