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Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Confucius

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The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game.

Michael Jordan

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The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Leonardo da Vinci

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Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.

Mark Twain

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Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found.

Claire Danes

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Right now, when we're hearing so much disturbing and hateful rhetoric, it is so important to remember that our diversity has been — and will always be — our greatest source of strength and pride here in the United States.

Michelle Obama

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The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist'.

Maria Montessori

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The Who quite possibly remain the greatest live band ever. Even the list-driven punk legend and music historian Johnny Ramone agreed with me on this.

Eddie Vedder

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For years, I meant to read 'Arabian Sands', Wilfred Thesiger's account of two punishing camel journeys during the late 1940s across Southern Arabia's Empty Quarter. Now that I have, I can sheepishly join the chorus of those who revere the book as one of the half dozen greatest works of modern English travel writing.

Michael Dirda

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When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things — not the great occasions — that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Bob Hope

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The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

Hubert H. Humphrey

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Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Thomas A. Edison

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Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Bill Gates

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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Jim Valvano

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There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life; some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures.

Bryant H. McGill

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I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.

Hamilton Jordan

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The greatest generation was formed first by the Great Depression. They shared everything — meals, jobs, clothing.

Tom Brokaw

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The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

Plato

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Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.

William E. Gladstone

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Every year, our white intruders become more greedy, exacting, oppressive, and overbearing. Every year, contentions spring up between them and our people, and when blood is shed, we have to make atonement, whether right or wrong, at the cost of the lives of our greatest chiefs and the yielding up of large tracts of our lands.

Tecumseh

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