Chuck Wepner Quotes
I've been a survivor my whole life...if I survived the Marines, I can survive Muhammad Ali.
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I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
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Well, to take me from where I was, and the life I was leading, to the life I lead now with the church and with the Lord and with Jesus Christ, it's a total, total turn–around.
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Fantasy and reality often overlap.
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Life is large. We cannot possibly grasp the whole of it in the few years that we have to live. What is vital? What is essential? What may we profitably let go?
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The act of driving your body, very occasionally, close to its limit of endurance is for some reason one of life’s major satisfactions. And relaxing afterwards is one of life’s most luxurious rewards.
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I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions.
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Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has, for its first duty, to forgive.
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The best hitting advice I ever got was: Keep your eye clear and hit 'em where they ain't; that's all.
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As you climb the mountains of life, stay on the path of virtue. There will be others to help you- your parents, family members, bishops, advisers, and righteous friends of all ages. And if you are weary or take a wrong turn, change your direction and get back on the path of virtue. Always remember that the Savior is there for you. He will enable you to repent, strengthen you, lighten your burdens, dry your tears, comfort you, and continue to help you stay on the path.
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My responsibility as a poet, as an artist, is to not look away.
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Next to the Bible, I think the Constitution is the most important document ever written.
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One blade couldn’t win a battle, but as long as it was mine, it could be used to protect me and those I loved.
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Teachers should be very careful not to spoil their pupils' taste for poetry for all time by making it a task and an imposition.
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A lot changed when I had Natasha. I'm a survivor.
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More than a victim, I am a survivor of a dehumanization process.
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One of many problems with survey research in general is that you can only survey the survivors. In other words, if you were to do a survey of people who were known to have played Russian Roulette and you sent out the questions before the time they were going to play and then you come back six months after they played Russian Roulette, you would probably discover that among the people who did come back there was no harm done.
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He's like the Muhammad Ali of football. Muhammad Ali was the trash-talker of boxing. It's funny, though. It really is.
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I was actually very pleased that they let me do it, because I feel very deeply for breast cancer survivors. I don't have it, but it is in my family. I've always been very aware of it. I go for mammograms and checkups.
