"The Bible stands alone in human literature in its elevated conception of manhood, in character and conduct."

-- Henry Ward Beecher

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“I led the league in go get 'em next time.”

Source : Bill Schroeder, Drew Olson, Craig Counsell, Bob Uecker (2016). “If These Walls Could Talk: Milwaukee Brewers: Stories from the Milwaukee Brewers Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box”, p.46, Triumph Books
“Three things it would be extremely difficult to play a show without: makeup, my vocal cords and pants.”
“We send our [peacekeepers] off to some disputed zone, full of local intrigue and power blocs and uncertainty and danger, and they are supposed to save lives not with their weapons, but through their competence and their character. And they do it.”

Source : Speech on the occasion of the presentation of the insignia of the Order of Military Merit, February 05, 1997.
“I was a kid, and I remember my mother singing. She was also a radio soap opera actress, but my mother sang.”
“I never question God. Sometimes I say, 'Why me? Why do I have such a hard life? Why do I have this disease? Why do I have siblings who died?' But then I think and say, 'Why not me?'”
“Wanting is the beginning of getting.”

Source : Rumer Godden (2016). “An Episode of Sparrows”, p.107, New York Review of Books
“You must become the producer, director and actor in the unfolding story of your life.”
“There is a strange idea aboard, held by all monetary cranks, that credit is something a banker gives to a man. Credit, on the contrary, is something a man already has. He has it, perhaps, because he already has marketable assets of a greater cash value than the loan for which he is asking. Or he has it because his character and past record have earned it. He brings it into the bank with him. That is why the banker makes him the loan.”

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