Lewis Carroll Quotes
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You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
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If you don't make the best-seller list, if you don't get shortlisted for any prizes, it's goodbye.
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We won with young. We won with old. We won with highly educated. We won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated.
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As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.
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The one that hurts the most is that Busch race I had won.
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I just won the gold medal and I couldn't eat downtown. I said, 'Something's wrong.' And from then on, I've been a Muslim.
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Henceforth ye may thieve with better knowledge whence lucre should be won, and learn that it is not well to love gain from every source. For thou wilt find that ill-gotten pelf brings more men to ruin than to weal.
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Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires.
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The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive. You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity. Such knowledge is a true gift, for all that it is painfully won, and it has been worth more than any qualification I ever earned.
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It's really ironic that I won, because that's not the goal that I had in mind when I went out to skate.
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There is not any advantage to be won from grim lamentation.
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Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
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Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
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Money won is always better than money earned.
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I played the British Open in 1937. It took a week to get there and a week to get home. I was the low American; finished fourth or fifth. And what it came down to was, I lost a good part of my summer, won $185, and spent $1,000 on boat fare alone.
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A sport, a struggle for results and a fight for prizes. I think that the discussion about "chess is science or chess is art" is already inappropriate. The purpose of modern chess is to reach a result.
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If you are bitter, that means they got the best of you. If they got the best of you, that means they won.
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Lack of patience is probably the most common reason for losing a game, or drawing games that should have been won.
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I've won. Hurray! I don't have to go to school any more.
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I guess for my skin, I clean it and moisturize and try to drink water. How boring is this though? I'm convinced that it comes from within. If you're happy and healthy, it shows.
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If there is an auteur who influenced me - and there is only one - that is Charlie Chaplin. And he never won an Oscar.
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Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better? Why hide deficiencies instead of overcoming them? Why look for friends or partners who will just shore up your self-esteem instead of ones who will also challenge you to grow? And why seek out the tried and true, instead of experiences that will stretch you? The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it’s not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset. This is the mindset that allows people to thrive during some of the most challenging times in their lives.
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Everybody has won, and all must have prizes.
