You can't have a crummy game and win like you could in other sports, because it's all up to you. There is a saying in wrestling, ' If it is to be, it's up to me'. It takes a lot of guts to take on that responsibility and scrutiny.
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A tide began to surge beneath the calm surface of Stephen's friendliness. This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am. Try to be one of us, repeated Davin. In your heart you are an Irishman but your pride is too powerful. My ancestors threw off their language and took another, Stephen said. They allowed a handful of foreigners to subject them. Do you fancy that I am going to pay in my own life and person debts they made? What for? For our freedom, said Davin. No honourable and sincere man, said Stephen, has given up to you his life and his youth and his affections from the days of Wolfe Tone to those of Parnell, but you sold him to the enemy or failed him in need or reviled him and left him for another. And you invite me to be one of you. I'd see you damned first. They died for their ideals, Stevie, said Davin. Our day will come yet, believe me. Stephen, following his own thought, was silent for an instant... When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets ... Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.
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I get the Reese's candy bar, If you read it, there's an apostrophe. The candy bar is his. I didn't know that. Next time your eating a Reese's and some guy named Reese comes up to you and says let me have that. You better give it to him. I'm sorry Reece, I didn't think I would ever run into you.
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People come up to me and say, 'Emo, do people really come up to you?'
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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.
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One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to come up to you and show you a nice brand-new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken, and this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the Jack of Spades jump out of the deck and squirt cider in your ear. But, son, do not bet this man, for as sure as you are standing there, you are going to end up with an earful of cider.
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The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof, Oh, God, enlarge within us the sense of fellowship with all living things, our brothers the animals to whom you gave the earth as their home in common with us. We remember with shame that in the past we have exercised the high dominion of man with ruthless cruelty so that the voice of the earth, which should have gone up to you in song, has been a groan of travail. May we realize that they live not for us alone but for themselves and for you and that they love the sweetness of life.
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Every person, all the events of your life, are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
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Every person, all the events of your life are drawn there because you have them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
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You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.
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What orators lack in depth, they make up to you in length.
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If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.
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Nature has come to a point where now, unless you take individual responsibility, you cannot grow. More than this nature cannot do. It has done enough. It has given you life, it has given you opportunity; now how to use it, it has left up to you. Meditation is your freedom...
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You can only flap your arms so much before gravity catches up to you.
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Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.
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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
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I've learned that fate only takes you so far. After that, it's up to you to make it happen.
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Fate! There is fate! But it only takes you so far. After that, it's up to you to make it happen!
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There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can.
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Life itself cannot give you joy unless you really will it. Life just gives you time and space. Its up to you to fill it.
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Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
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Fate only takes you so far, then it is up to you to make it happen.
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Fate only takes you so far. The rest is up to you.
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If your children look up to you, you've made a success of life's biggest job.
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Life just gives you time & space; it's up to you to fill it.
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Fate only takes you so far. Once you're there it's up to you to make it happen.
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