Berton Averre Quotes
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I get asked to comment a lot on inequality in cycling, but for me it has never been an issue. Everything has always been equal on the track, and the male and female riders are all part of the same team, and we all mix freely.
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Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge.
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When leaders throughout an organization take an active, genuine interest in the people they manage, when they invest real time to understand employees at a fundamental level, they create a climate for greater morale, loyalty, and, yes, growth.
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In lean times, you get plenty of sleep, and you're not flying around everywhere.
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In literature, older women are not often given center stage.
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Friends can have different dreams and do different things.
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Everything that's really worthwhile in life comes to us.
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Why should I tell you where I am going to get funds from? If I were to do that then all the vested interests would get alerted. You must be aware that railways are full of such elements and my fight is against them.
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If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
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We are behind the curve in keeping up with the global telecommunications revolution.
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If you want to be alive and live in a real world, if you want to have any emotions at all in your life, you must willingly, knowingly, repeatedly set yourself up for things possibly not ending up 'happily ever after.
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The foundation of all civilization is loitering.
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I want fifteen referees at this fight…because there ain’t no one man who can keep up with the pace I’m gonna set except me.
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I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene….No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus.
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One must console oneself with the thought that time has a sieve through which most of these important things run into the ocean of oblivion and what remains after this selection is often still trite and bad.
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It's a cliche - but true - that life is not a dress rehearsal. You get to do it once, so do it well.
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When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually.
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News is the backbone of our network; the main commodity and the main successes of Al Jazeera came out of our involvement in covering the news in the Middle East.
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I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what's on my mind, and then get nine texts from all my friends going, 'What's the matter with you?' But I haven't ever made a big attempt to have any particular image. And I don't really worry about it. If it's funny, I don't care.
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To err is dysfunctional, to forgive co-dependent.
