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"I never thought of losing, but now that it's happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life."

— Muhammad Ali

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"I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart"

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Education1807–1882

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"These were the rhythms of his life: indifference and violence; periods of abstract brooding and periods of intense desire; moments of silence and moments of anger- like water ebbing and flowing from t…"

— Richard Wright

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"I studied that first Karpov-Kasparov match for a year and a half before I cracked it, what they were doing, and discovered that it was all prearranged move-by-move. There's no doubt of it in my mind."

— Bobby Fischer

Literature1943–2008

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