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«The medals don't mean anything and the glory doesn't last. It's all about your happiness. The rewards are going to come, but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing.»
Author: Jackie Joyner-Kersee
(Athlete)
| Keywords:
medals, performing, rewards, sport| Occasions:
Olympic
«The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.»
«We need to help younger people recognize their own capacity to do good, and help them discover the rewards of generosity.»
«Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
| Keywords:
composition, graphic, graphics, native, Native American, rewards, satisfies, scarcely, urge
«Shall I not inform you of a better act than fasting, alms, and prayers? Making peace between one another: enmity and malice tear up heavenly rewards by the roots»
«Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
disgrace, disgraced, disgraces, politics, profession, rewards
«Should one be shallow enough to view existence as a system of rewards and punishments, one soon learns that we pay as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats ...»
«Reality challenges and rewards. I believe our best days are yet to come.»
«There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer.»
Author: Seneca
| Keywords:
applause, assortment, avarice, inducement, inducements, purple, rewards, robe, tempt, varied
«There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
abandonment, battlefields, Braves, flourish, inch, invasion, In the Shadows, isolation, obstinate, renown, rewards, saluted, salutes, The Shadows, triumphs, trumpets, turpitude
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