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MIKE BARNICLE I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example i...
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VAN MORRISON If you think you can do it, you can.
JOHN BURROUGHS It ain't bragging if you can do it.
DIZZY DEAN If you can dream it, you can do it.
ENZO FERRARI Oh it was my pleasure, dears,” said Mrs. Weasley. “I’d invite you for Christmas, but … well,...
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ANJIE HENLEY If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all.
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'No! I am not!' G...
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Mrs D, Mrs I, Mrs FFI, Mrs C, Mrs U, Mrs LTY. That spells difficulty.'...
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PHILIP T. M. There's doubt in trying.
Just do it or stop thinking.
TOBA BETA Just do it... that's all... no matter what, when and where... but just do it.
DEYTH BANGER Learn, relearn and outlearn.
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BETHANY HAMILTON I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.
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K.J. KILTON If you can do it, why you won't do it???
If you have chance why you won't use it?
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BRIAN DONAHUE I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?
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BOB COLEMAN Why do you have to be so annoying sometimes?"
"Cant help it. It's the company I keep.
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JOANNE KATHLEEN ROWLING You cant do better, be better or have better than you believe you can.
DANIEL GILMAN Be all that you can be.
You can be great.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Pump gas and hydraulic cams are for minivans.........
WAYNE SMOTHERS I rather think he knew anyway.
JONATHAN STROUD You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.
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MIKE HOLMGREN I can't be perfect for you, but you are perfect for me.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS If Clinton had only attacked terrorism as much as he attacks George Bush we wouldn't be in this prob...
DENNIS MILLER If i cant then who can?
AJITH BSC MBA It is fate that I am here,' George persisted, 'but you can call it Italy if it makes you less unhapp...
E.M. FORSTER And then a friend convinced me, 'George, you are making all these companies wealthy, why don't you g...
GEORGE FOREMAN Why do you eat? Why to sleep? If you cant be a trustworthy person, cant be a true lover, cant be a g...
WRITER GRADED I told him I didn't have any idea what to do, but George said he would tell me exactly what to do. E...
LARRY PACE It matters little, she said, softly. "To you, very little. Another idol has displaced me; and if it ...
CHARLES DICKENS Time cant be given. But it can be shared.
CECELIA AHERN You can be all that you want to be.
Keep dreaming and reach out to your dreams.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA We both know... that soon everything is going to end...

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This chat will be in the...
DEYTH BANGER The difference is,
Now I cant call you anymore…
I cant hear your calming voice,
I c...
JJM If you want to really learn your playbook, you just do it.
ERIC BERRY Don't hesitate or talk about what you want to do. Just do it.
GBENGA AKINNAGBE You can have anything you want in life, you must be willing to conquer the challenge.
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GEORGE ORWELL Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
GEORGE ORWELL Good writing is like a windowpane.
GEORGE ORWELL For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.
GEORGE ORWELL As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
GEORGE ORWELL A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing ...
GEORGE ORWELL One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in ...
GEORGE ORWELL To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than othe...
GEORGE ORWELL War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit f...
GEORGE ORWELL All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are ...
GEORGE ORWELL The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
GEORGE ORWELL I've been to L.A. before, and I love the sunshine and the fact that people seem so genuinely nic...
HELEN GEORGE