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The pool is terrible, but that doesn't have much to do with my record swims. That's all mental attitude.


Mark Spitz

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MARK FROST I can't do literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and lookin...
MARK TWAIN The turning point for me was when the Supreme Court installed Bush in 2000, even though he got half ...
MARK EDWARDS A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.
MARK RUTHERFORD Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would...
MARK TWAIN Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relati...
MARK TWAIN