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Tiger Woods, Larry Bird, Wayne Gretzky, a pitcher just before a game, I would imagine they all have nervous energy. But as you perform, the nervous energy dissipates and you start to relax and you start to do what you do best. ↗

— Randy Johnson

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The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Disease generally begins that equality which death completes. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Only a couple of times have I ever been to church and felt enlightened by it. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

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