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John Wooden quote: "Never try to be better than somebody else. But most..."

Never try to be better than somebody else. But most importantly, never cease trying to be the best you can be.

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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. C. S. Lewis
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The women's movement hit my neighborhood like a freight train. Everybody got divorced. You wonder what would have happened to women if the suburbs hadn't been built. Susan Faludi
The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples. Carter G. Woodson
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Stendhal quote: "I love her beauty, but I fear her mind."
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind. Stendhal
Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak. Walter Lippmann
This is an area where North Carolina does excel. I have known more colorful North Carolina political figures than I have colorless ones. Jesse Helms
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You get what you're good enough to take. David Kirk
Because of my age and because there's more work on the small screen. What it's missing in quality it makes up for in quantity. From an actor's selfish point of view. Cesar Romero
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I've always been able to see you," I say. "It's a rather lovely view. Jodi Picoult
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