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When we were together, I loved you deeply and you gave me so much happiness I can never repay you.

A couple of times a day I sit quietly and visualize my body fighting the AIDS virus. It's the same a...

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One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my...

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The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anyt...

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True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whate...

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You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about...

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We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those w...

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Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.

Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.

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Arthur Ashe

Tennis player

Born: 1943-07-10

Died: 1993-02-06

Arthur Robert Ashe, Jr. (10 July 1943 – 6 February 1993) was a prominent African American tennis player and an AIDS activist.More