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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense. I am just one human being.

Dalai Lama

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At the beginning when the child is coming, people worry the child may be deformed. When a healthy boy or child comes, people are very happy for a short moment.

Dalai Lama

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To be successful in my native France, where people speak the same language and understand me, is nothing.

Edith Piaf

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People say that I could sing the phone book and make it sound good.

Edith Piaf

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The Tibetan people will need to determine who the next reincarnation of the Dalai Lama is.

Dalai Lama

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A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.

Edith Sitwell

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Most people doing the decathlon these days are quite boring, so people don't relate to them.

Daley Thompson

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Kids are starting at such a low base rate in terms of fitness that it's taking them years to catch up to where people like me started from. Every little bit is making it more difficult for kids to succeed on a world stage.

Daley Thompson

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Sport and health are so important to our nation that they deserve to be right at the front of people's minds.

Daley Thompson

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A community having the breadth and scope of a people still cannot claim to be an ethnic community unless and until there emerges from its mentality a distinctive culture particularized by the community's special character.

Edith Stein

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It's good to be difficult to know. Too many people are too easy to know.

Daley Thompson

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I wouldn't swap the era I competed in for anything, not a day of it. I started out as an amateur, and people like myself, Seb Coe, Steve Ovett, Steve Cram, Tessa Sanderson and the rest did it for the glory of winning medals for our country.

Daley Thompson

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As the possessor of complete knowledge, God is not mistaken about people's experiences as people are mistaken about each others' experiences.

Edith Stein

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What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my best qualities is that I used whatever other people found to be an adverse thing to be a positive thing for myself.

Daley Thompson

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Many churches are measuring the wrong things. We measure things like attendance and giving, but we should be looking at more fundamental things like anger, contempt, honesty, and the degree to which people are under the thumb of their lusts. Those things can be counted, but not as easily as offerings.

Dallas Willard

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Nobody has the right to negatively judge a player like Balotelli, as people can make mistakes.

Edinson Cavani

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So many people would like to have guidance from God because obviously, if you have a word from God, it's the best possible thing. But they don't relate that to life as a whole. Often they want guidance as a way of opting out of the responsibility of making decisions.

Dallas Willard

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Peoplehood tends to develop into nationhood if the people achieves a certain maturity. This is analogous to an individual person who becomes acquainted with herself only in the course of her life, without being able to say that she possessed no personal uniqueness at all before that 'self-recognition.'

Edith Stein

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If you work hard in real life, people tend to get in your way - either from inertia or prejudice - and they stop you achieving things. It's the worst thing about real life compared with sports, where you generally get what you deserve: if you're the fastest guy, you win; there are no other games being played.

Daley Thompson

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What sometimes goes on in all sorts of Christian institutions is not formation of people in the character of Christ; it's teaching of outward conformity. You don't get in trouble for not having the character of Christ, but you do if you don't obey the laws.

Dallas Willard

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Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate myself from the other champions.

Daley Thompson

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The basic question 'will I obey Christ 's teaching?' is rarely taken as a serious issue. For example, to take one of Jesus' commands, that is relevant to contemporary life, I don't know of any church that actually teaches a church how to bless people who curse them, yet this is a clear command.

Dallas Willard

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If you have a group of people come together around a vision for real discipleship, people who are committed to grow, committed to change, committed to learn, then a spiritual assessment tool can work.

Dallas Willard

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I'm obsessive. I want to know the answer to how good I am. Most people aren't.

Daley Thompson

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