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“I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I'm like, 'My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don't have it. I just want to chill.' We all have self-doubt. You don't deny it, but you also don't capitulate to it. You embrace it.”
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“Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism."
[Address to National Press Club in Washington DC, as quoted in Freedom and Union (April 1952)]”
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[Address to National Press Club in Washington DC, as quoted in Freedom and Union (April 1952)]”
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“If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.”
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“But my later experience has taught me two lessons: first, that things are seen plainer after the events have occurred; second, that the most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticised.”
― Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant: All Volumes
― Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant: All Volumes

“A lot of people say they want to be great, but they’re not willing to make the sacrifices necessary to achieve greatness. They have other concerns, whether important or not, and they spread themselves out. That’s totally fine. After all, greatness is not for everybody.”
― The Mamba Mentality: How I Play
― The Mamba Mentality: How I Play
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