Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

Richard M. Nixon
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  2. If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

  3. Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.

  4. The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

  5. If I had feelings, I probably wouldn’t have even survived.

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