Playing football, I'm getting chills just thinking about it. That first knock of the game, you are going on kickoff, and you are just trying to smack somebody just as hard as you can. That's how I play baseball. I want to hit you. ~Bryce Harper
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There is a theory that creativity arises when individuals are out of sync with their environment. To put it simply, people who fit in with their communities have insufficient motivation to risk their psyches in creating something truly new, while those who are out of sync are driven by the constant need to prove their worth. ~Gary Taubes
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Keep an eye on the cat and another on the frying pan. ~Proverb
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Once I saw my parents argue because we didn't have a lot of money anymore. So, I did what I had to do. I got my piggy bank and I went out to the backyard and buried it. ~Jack Handey
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The wise person has long ears and a short tongue. ~German Proverb
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Neglect starts out as an infection then becomes a disease. ~Jim Rohn
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Truth becomes disagreeable to the fool only. ~Arabic Proverb
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The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong. ~Marlene Dietrich
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We are to love God for Himself, because of a twofold reason; nothing is more reasonable, nothing more profitable. ~Bernard of Clairvaux
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Rice is born in water and must die in wine. ~Italian Proverb
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The malaise and military decline of the post-Vietnam years under President Jimmy Carter set the stage for Russian aggression abroad and uncertainty among our allies. ~Paul Cook
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America's great newspapers have staffs that range from 50 percent to 70 percent of what they were just a few years ago. ~Eric Alterman
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In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places, that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process. ~John Lewis
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Life sucks order from a sea of disorder. ~James Gleick
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The highest wisdom adopts the humblest of bodies. ~Antoni Tapies
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The enmity of the wise, rather than the friendship of the fool. ~Arabic Proverb
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The owl is the wisest of all birds because the more it sees, the less it talks. ~African Proverb
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Christians were regarded as separated from society and therefore destructive of the Greco-Roman way of life. ~Kenneth Scott Latourette
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I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere. ~Ryan White
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Proverbs are the draft horses of wisdom. ~Canadian Proverb
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Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire. ~Abe Fortas
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I'm never in the mood to eat or drink when I get to a show. I'm just too nerved out. ~Yelawolf
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If the German people lay down their arms the whole of Eastern and Southern Europe, together with the Reich, will come under Russian occupation. Behind an iron curtain mass butcheries of people would begin. ~Joseph Goebbels
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Listen to the wisdom of the toothless ones. ~Fijian Proverb
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A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom. ~Welsh Proverb
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