"I wanted to be like Nolan Ryan. I didn't want to be like Pete Gray...And I don't want kids to be like me because I have one hand. I want kids to be like Jim Abbott because he's a baseball pitcher at Michigan and he won the Big Ten Championship game, and not because I can field a bunt and throw to first."

-- Jim Abbott

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“Magic has often been thought of us the art of making dreams come true; the art of realizing visions. Yet before we can bring birth to the vision we have to see it.”
“Sunnis consider Shias a pack of unwholesome fanatics and Shias consider Sunnis a gang of lukewarm no-goods - there's nothing like religion for spreading brotherly love!”

Source : Dervla Murphy (1987). “Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle”, p.70, The Overlook Press
“There is a treadmill quality to workaholism.”
“I was maybe only 13 or 14 when I started to play junior tournaments.”
“Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.”

Source : FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Jun 26, 2012
“If I hadn't met you, I'd certainly have fallen in love with him.”
“Sleep, baby, sleep. Thy father's watching the sheep. Thy mother's shaking the dreamland tree, and down drops a little dream for thee.”
“To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem.”

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