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And, you know, being able to wear the stars and stripes, when you step up

on one of the blocks or, you know, when you step off of an airplane or when you hear the national anthem play, you know, it's one of the greatest feelings in the world because you know that there are people at home who are supporting you and watching you.
Michael Phelps

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
Thomas Carlyle

I absolutely intend to return every penny given to me by my Democratic colleagues and Democratic leaders.
Rodney Alexander

We were not as rich as the Rockefellers or Mellons, but we were rich enough to know how rich they were.
Louis Auchincloss

Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns.
David Ogilvy

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
Albert Camus

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
Niccolo Machiavelli

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