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" Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. "
Samuel Johnson
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" I am a great admirer of mystery and magic. Look at this life - all mystery and magic. "
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" Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter. "
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" Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they've taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences. "
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" Sunrise offered a very beautiful spectacle; the water was quite unruffled, but the motion communicated by the tides was so great that, although there was not a breath of air stirring, the sea heaved slowly with a grand and majestic motion. "
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" I tell a student that the most important class you can take is technique. A great chef is first a great technician. 'If you are a jeweler, or a surgeon or a cook, you have to know the trade in your hand. You have to learn the process. You learn it through endless repetition until it belongs to you. "
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" A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority. "
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