"I want to be consistent from the first day of the season to the last."

-- Adrian Beltre

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“I have a good sense of my body in a bathing suit around people who appreciate what I'm doing, like a contest. Then I'm proud. On television I am proud. But on a beach most people are not experts. The general public doesn't know how to look. How proud can you be when they don't even know what they're looking at?”
“I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists in being put back on the right road. A sum can be put right: but only by going back til you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on. Evil can be undone, but it cannot 'develop' into good. Time does not heal it. The spell must be unwound, bit by bit, 'with backward mutters of dissevering power' --or else not.”
“Nothing is so much coveted by a young man as the reputation of being a genius; and many seem to feel that the want of patience for laborious application and deep research is such a mark of genius as cannot be mistaken: while a real genius, like Sir Isaac Newton, with great modesty says, that the great and only difference between his mind and the minds of others consisted solely in his having more patience.”

Source : John Todd (1856). “The student's manual: designed”, p.23
“We know that no one should tell a woman she has to bear an unwanted child. We know that religious beliefs cannot define patriotism.”
“Charity always feels better to the donor than to the recipient.”
“God realizes His people need protection from the pains and heartaches of the world.”
“Red serpents, fiery forms, and yelling hags, Fit company for mad adventurers.”

Source : Philip Freneau (1963). “The Poems of Philip Freneau: Poet of the American Revolution (Complete)”, p.214, Library of Alexandria
“It seems to me that the great pleasure of human life is not in having an opinion, but rather in learning all the ways you are wrong, and all the nuances you failed to account for, and all the truths that turned out to be not as simple as you once believed. And it seems to me that one of the central pleasures of attending school is that you get to read with really well-informed people who can help welcome you into a complex world stuffed with rich and maddening ambiguity.”

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