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It's a fact that children with cancer have higher cure rates than adults with cancer, and I wonder if the reason is their natural, unthinking bravery... Adults know too much about failure they're more cynical and resigned and fearful.

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Lance Armstrong
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: September 18
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Texas
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Pain is temporary. Eventually it will subside. If I quit, however, the surrender stays with me.
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Cancer doesn’t care if you’re Republican or Democrat.
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The answer is hard work. What are you doing on Christmas Eve? Are you riding your bike? January 1st - are you riding your bike?
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I didn't invent the culture, but I didn't try to stop the culture.
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Cycling is so hard, the suffering is so intense, that it’s absolutely cleansing. The pain is so deep and strong that a curtain descends over your brain….Once someone asked me what pleasure I took in riding for so long. ‘PLEASURE???? I said.’ ‘I don’t understand the question.’ I didn’t do it for the pleasure I did it for the pain.
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Well, you better ride like you stole something 'cause you are about to win a stage in the Tour de Fance.
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If there was a god, I'd still have both nuts.
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Hope that is the only antidote to fear.
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Chasing records doesn't keep me on my bike. Happiness does.
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Extraordinary allegations require extraordinary evidence.
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Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.
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For 15 years I was a complete arsehole to a dozen people. I said I would try and make it right with those people, and anybody that gave me an audience, I was there.
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It's funny, because I have periods where I just kind of go dark. I don't tweet, I don't talk, I don't interview, and then I have times where I do.
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Motivation can't take you very far if you don't have the legs.
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I have never had a single positive doping test, and I do not take performance-enhancing drugs.
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Your past forms you, whether you like it or not. Each encounter and experience has its own effect, and you're shaped the way the wind shapes a mesquite tree on a plain.
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