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I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship.
Major Taylor
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Learn how to live and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll know how to live.


Morrie Schwartz
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I'll tell a young kid in a minute, 'If you don't know how to read, then what good is trying to be an MC?' Like, you can MC, but if you're not trying to be a better person, learn and apply that to your MCing, then how far do you think you're really going to go?
Raekwon
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The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is better than a spoon... The book has been thoroughly tested, and it's very hard to see how it could be improved on for its current purposes.
Umberto Eco
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Just live life. That's the best way to learn how to act. Just live.


Rory Culkin
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I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.
Laurence Sterne
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We want Facebook to be one of the best places people can go to learn how to build stuff. If you want to build a company, nothing better than jumping in and trying to build one. But Facebook is also great for entrepreneurs/hackers. If people want to come for a few years and move on and build something great, that's something we're proud of.
Mark Zuckerberg
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Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.


Jean Cocteau
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It seemed to me that NASA, especially Goddard, was the place where I could carry out the dreams that I had, which were to push forward an experiment that would measure the big bang radiation better than anyone had ever tried before. Therefore, it seemed like the perfect place to go.
John C. Mather
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We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.


Jimmy Carter
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I'm trying to learn how to tap into the power of my own being. I know it sounds corny.


Lucinda Williams
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My parents encouraged thought. You'll get through life better if you learn how to think.


Holly Near
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Once, as an experiment, I travelled around the world with a single suit. Before I left, I went to a tailor in Savile Row and asked him to make me a suit that I could wear in any climate and which I could use as a tuxedo, a dinner jacket, a lounge suit and a blazer.
George Hamilton
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How could you not wanna be in 'Doctor Who' at least once in your career?


Ben Browder
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The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
Will Rogers
You learn how to be book smart in school, but you better not forget that you also need to be street smart.
Harvey Mackay
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He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know how to learn, didn't know how to comprehend what he was doing, didn't try to learn how to get better.
Jack Nicklaus
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The only way I see the world now is through coming out of and growing up and living in Somalia. In the time of war, everyone was basically trying to live and manage the best they could. But you also had another period which was not a hard time at all - it was just a beautiful time. I lived in both eras.
K'naan
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We're always going to remind ourselves of our mistakes and how we do things differently, trying to be a better person or whatever.
Cat Power
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Better to fight for something than live for nothing.


George S. Patton