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Access to books and the encouragement of the habit of reading: these two things are the first and most necessary steps in education and librarians teachers and parents all over the country know it. It is our children's right and it is also our best hope and their best hope for the future.
I'm not supposed to be able to speak clearly and decipher what's going on in the media. I'm supposed to be the typical amateur who's 22 and scared to death and can't believe he won the Olympics.
Quotes By Carl Lewis
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There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.
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To this day most people think of me as the fastest human. They don't really...
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Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it...
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People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the...
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We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and...
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Why do we have 47 million people without health care? Because America has...
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I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I...
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The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of...
Quotes About Death
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When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the...
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I start thinking about life after death. I've got to quit thinking about it...
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What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in...
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So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a...
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I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm...
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Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is...
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I was in two episodes playing Christopher Reeve's character's emissary. They...
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The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.
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As a reward for their efforts however those early Christians were beaten...
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I think that much of this was running in background as I contemplated whether...