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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Exercise is labor without weariness. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

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I didn't make it a priority, and as a result my knee didn't heal to the extent it should have. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

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People only see gymnastics on TV and in the Olympics at such an extreme. So it can be intimidating. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

#gymnastics #intimidating #olympics #only #people

When I was younger, my coach, Liang Chow, made all the decisions. I would go to the gym for practice, do exactly what Chow told me to do, go home, come back and start all over again. If Chow told me to do 50 squat jumps, I did 50 squat jumps. ↗

— Shawn Johnson

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