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Venus Williams Tennis Player
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"Winning once is never anyone's dream. We all want to keep winning no matter what it is, or if we retire, we all still are striving toward something, probably most of us are."

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Epictetus Philosopher
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"If you would be well spoken of, learn to be well-spoken; and having learnt to be well- spoken, strive also to be well-doing; so shall you succeed in being well spoken of."

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William Faulkner Novelist, Poet, Playwright
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"A writer strives to express a universal truth in the way that rings the most bells in the shortest amount of time."

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Johnny Depp Actor, Producer
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"I realized that it was great to have a job, but it didn't have anything remotely to do with what I was striving for, so why was I doing it?"

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Pindar Poet
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"My God grant me love for that which has splendor, but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable things."

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Euripides Playwright
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"I think that fortune watcheth o'er our lives, surer than we. But well said: he who strives will find his goals strive for him equally."

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Edward Abbey Author, Environmentalist
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"Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony."

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Carl Sagan Astronomer, Astrophysicist
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"Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe."

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