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Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.
Competition
George Leonard

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I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.
Possibilities
Max Lerner

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The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.
Age and Aging
Max Lerner

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Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
Faults
Doris Lessing

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A man may fall many times but he won't be a failure until he says someone pushed him.
Blame
Elmer G. Letterman

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God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.
Pleasure
C. S. Lewis

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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
Pain
C. S. Lewis

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The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
Education
C. S. Lewis

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I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.
Money
Joe E. Lewis

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I would take a bomb, but I can't stand the noise.
Alcohol and Alcoholism
Joe E. Lewis

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I'm still chasing girls. I don't remember what for, but I'm still chasing them.
Memory
Joe E. Lewis

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You only live once -- but if you work it right, once is enough.
Life and Living
Joe E. Lewis

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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.
Courage
Sinclair Lewis

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He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.
Wisdom
Georg C. Lichtenberg

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I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
People, Other
Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.
Indifference
Georg C. Lichtenberg

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Beware of rashness, but with energy, and sleepless vigilance, go forward and give us victories.
Victory
Abraham Lincoln

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Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
Worry
Abraham Lincoln

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Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
Peace
Abraham Lincoln

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I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
Perseverance
Abraham Lincoln

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I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.
Horses
Abraham Lincoln

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I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
Progress
Abraham Lincoln

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I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.
Progress
Abraham Lincoln

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If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
Humor
Abraham Lincoln

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My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.
Work
Abraham Lincoln

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun