Allen Iverson Quotes
When you get down like that, you use up so much energy to get back into the basketball game. Then you have to be perfect the rest of the way. And playing this game, there is no way you can be perfect, because this game is so hard.
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Photoshop should be a free-to-play game. There's not really a difference between very traditional apps and how they enhance productivity and wandering around a forest and killing bears.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand!
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When you get down like that, you use up so much energy to get back into the basketball game. Then you have to be perfect the rest of the way. And playing this game, there is no way you can be perfect, because this game is so hard.
