The only reason baseball's numerical touchstones have any significance is that most players - even the game's greats - peter out just barely before they reach them. - Stephen Rodrick

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I read Plato's 'Republic.' I read it through about five times until I could actually understand it. - Huey Newton

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There is always madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.― Neil Gaiman

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Success is falling nine times and getting up ten. — Jon Bon Jovi

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Because you are alive, everything is possible. ― Thich Nhat Hanh

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When I die, don't come, I wouldn't want a leaf to turn away from the sun -- it loves it there. There's nothing so spiritual about being happy but you can't miss a day of it, because it doesn't last. ― Frank O'Hara

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No matter how bad the lord is, the lout become a lord is ten times worse.

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Nothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism is gonna stop us all. ― Fred Hampton

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We are surrounded by adversity but we shall triumph because we have a greater spirit. ― Lailah Gifty Akita

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