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I wasn't the kind of kid who would get A's without even trying. I had to work to get good grades, but I was very organised about it because I always wanted to do well at everything I did. I'm very competitive. ↗

— Jessica Ennis

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That's all I cared about too, was getting it right. ↗

— R. Lee Ermey

#cared #getting #i #right #too

I feel a sense of sadness and joy. Mostly sadness though about what I've experienced and sadness about what others have experienced in reference to the stroke. ↗

— Luther Vandross

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I don't care half so much about making money as I do about making my point, and coming out ahead. ↗

— Cornelius Vanderbilt

#ahead #care #coming #half #i

I know that from the days of Watergate... the notion of two sources on a story has become the popular dogma about how you confirm something. And there is a lot of truth to that, but there are all kinds of ways to check to the extent that you can, a story that you get. ↗

— Howard Fineman

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I can't think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you were about someone. ↗

— Gillian Flynn

#anything #crushing #exactly #how #i

Secular humanists suspect there is something more gloriously human about resisting the religious impulse; about accepting the cold truth, even if that truth is only that the universe is as indifferent to us as we are to it. ↗

— Tom Flynn

#accepting #cold #even #gloriously #human

Nowadays, as soon as a striker scores three goals, everyone starts asking him about it. ↗

— Just Fontaine

#asking #everyone #goals #him #nowadays

I have been all over the world. I have met some wonderful people, lots of them very simple, whom nobody will ever hear about, but who have been fabulous to me. ↗

— Maureen Forrester

#been #ever #fabulous #hear #i

Today there are hundreds of millions of mobile devices, but you do have to know a bit about what each device is capable of doing in order to approach it as a developer. ↗

— John Fowler

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