We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win.
un aforisma di Edward Gibbon
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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
un aforisma di Mark Twain
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The whole injury experience was so frustrating. I knew if I could get back I would never take running for granted,
un aforisma di Cicero
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I play a musical instrument a little, but only for my own amazement.
un aforisma di Fred Allen
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Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
un aforisma di Robert Frost
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All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.
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Life is a brief, small, and transitory phenomenon in an obscure corner, not at all the sort of thing that one would make a fuss about if one were not personally concerned
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Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.
un aforisma di Kahlil Gibran
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