Jim Thorpe Quotes
Track and field, because it was something I could do by myself, one-on-one, me against everybody else.
Quotes to Explore
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I think free speech is probably the coolest thing we have in this country, and again, you can label it hate speech and dismiss it, and then you're allowed to censor it.
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One believes others will do what he will do to himself.
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Election time is when you start to hear about 'average people,' 'working families,' 'patriotic Americans' and such.
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Any legitimate religion consists of rules of morality linked by love. That's it.
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If we are going to live as disciples of Jesus, we have to remember that all noble things are difficult. The Christian life is gloriously difficult, but the difficulty of it does not make us faint and cave in, it rouses us up to overcome.
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What we can be sure of, however, is that if the elections are not free and fair then Zimbabwe will be in the clearest and most flagrant breach of declarations to which they have signed up.
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When we gaze into the eyes of our beloved, we're staring into the eyes of a sacred mirror, and we recognize our oneness.
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From the very second that two people sat together around a fire in the forest, there was another human out there who felt better in the dark.
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We're not perfect, we're not clean cut. We're just trying to be ourselves.
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Nothing happens until you decide. Make a decision and watch your life move forward.
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I've always been a huge fan of theatre and performance. The idea of just the human voice and just this night. Live music is the same. They're doing it for you right now. It's an amazing thing. And if you perform a story properly, it can be a transporting, too.
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To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West - know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy.
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We right now give $15 billion every year as subsidies to private insurers under the Medicare system. Doesn't work any better through the private insurers. They just skim off $15 billion.
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The free world wants to feed South Africa to the Red Crocodile [communism], to appease its hunger.
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It's beauty that captures your attention. Personality which captures your heart.
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I believe the universe presents more options to a more loving mind.
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Competition is all about you. It's about feeding your selfish needs. It feeds the depravity of your heart.
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You can't fake passion. It is the fuel that drives any dream and makes you happy to be alive.
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I really believed that I was on the right track, but that did not mean that I would necessarily reach my goal
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We stopped eating meat many years ago. During the course of a Sunday lunch we happened to look out of the kitchen window at our young lambs playing happily in the fields. Glancing down at our plates, we suddenly realized that we were eating the leg of an animal who had until recently been playing in a field herself. We looked at each other and said, "Wait a minute, we love these sheep-they're such gentle creatures. So why are we eating them?" It was the last time we ever did.
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Track and field, because it was something I could do by myself, one-on-one, me against everybody else.
