"I'm not saying that they were Einsteins; they were marginal students. But every ballplayer whoever touched me has moved up his station in life. And the players moved up my station."

-- Al McGuire

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“Laundry, liturgy and women's work all serve to ground us in the world, and they need not grind us down. Our daily tasks, whether we perceive them as drudgery or essential, life-supporting work, do not define who we are as women or as human beings.”
“People like to lay their whole life, and all of their own secrets out in front of the world. They make money off of it, and find satisfaction that way. I personally don't believe in that. I think it can be hurtful to yourself and those around you.”
“I just listened to the music, and breathed in the day, and remembered things. Things like walking around the neighborhood and looking at the houses and the lawns and the colorful trees and having that be enough.”
“From depicting the past, so goes the suspicion, it is a short step to glorifying the past.”
“Envy is blind. -Caeca invidia est”
“Every man goes through a period of thinking they're attracted to another guy.”
“the demons that make a person afraid are the hardest to cast out.”

Source : Elizabeth George Speare (1961). “The bronze bow”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
“I hope that when people with Down's see me, they will be inspired to do more than they think they can.”

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