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Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring. ↗

— William Alexander

#courage #die #earth #fall #forget

Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools. ↗

— William Alexander

#experience #fools #great #greatest #i

You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#know #people #poetry #realize #speak

We all know the Indians were colonized by the Europeans, but every colonized Indian has been colonized by the Indian reaction to colonization. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#colonization #europeans #every #indian #indians

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.' ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#champion #every #hated #i #life

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#come #defeated #down #even #extra

No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#locker #locker room #loser #room #say

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#know #man #never #peace #whip

We are losing each day an average 50 to 60 people throughout the country, if not more. If this is not civil war, then God knows what civil war is. ↗

— Iyad Allawi

#civil #civil war #country #day #each

The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do. ↗