"If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it."
-Paulo Coelho
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"I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time.“
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"All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society."
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"All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society."
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"Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time."
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"In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity."
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"I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success."
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