#feats

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

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The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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I have no interest in anybody's life that way so it defeats me why people go to that length to pry. ↗

— John Byrne

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We don't know what may yet happen to us, what military and political defeats we may yet have to face. ↗

— Moshe Sharett

#face #happen #know #may #military

Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day. ↗

— Sam Donaldson

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History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats. ↗

— B. C. Forbes

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A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it. ↗

— Henry Ford

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I think television defeats ventriloquism. ↗

— Paul Winchell

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People I look to: again, Hank Aaron, man you challenged the status quo and the records of the game. Monumental feats in an era where people didn't like that. ↗

— Dave Winfield

#again #challenged #era #feats #game

Eating coals of fire has always been one of the sensational feats of the Fire Kings, as it is quite generally known that charcoal burns with an extremely intense heat. ↗

— Harry Houdini

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