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I wake up every morning and I am in good health, so I’m not going to complain about money.

— Marie Josée Ta Lou-Smith

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Rio gave me self-confidence, experience and motivation to return to training and work hard.

It’s nice to see people who want to take a picture with me, who want to become like me. But I tell them they should not want to become like me, rather greater than me.

I want to be the greatest sprinter in Africa.

My older brother did not want me to carry on with football, fearing that I would become a tomboy.

I am just here trying to beat my personal best, and the rest will come.

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Men accept servility in order to acquire wealth; as if they could acquire anything of their own when they cannot even assert that they belong to themselves.

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Health is the greatest gift, contentment is the greatest wealth, a trusted friend is the best relative, Nibbana is the greatest bliss.

Gautama Buddha

Opulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessor.

Jerome The Cry for Justice (1915)

Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the Enlightenment, that which does not reduce to numbers, and ultimately to the one, becomes illusion.

Max Horkheimer Dialektik der Aufklärung [Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944)

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