"We had a lot of adversity, but we found a way."

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Source : "Albert Pujols, Cardinals on to the World Series". www.foxnews.com. October 17, 2011.

Matt Holliday

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“Miss, n. A title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate they are in the market. Miss, Misses (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense. Two are corruptions of Mistress, the other of Master. In the general abolition of social titles in this our country they miraculously escaped to plague us. If we must have them let us be consistent and give one to the unmarried man. I venture to suggest Mush, abbreviated to Mh.”
“I frowned at the list. â€œSoâ€¦ Iâ€™ll go back and tell the Traynors that Iâ€™m going to get their suicidal quadriplegic son drunk, spend their money on strippers and lap dancers, and then trundle him off to the Disability Olympicsâ€””
“How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.”
“Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.”

Source : Aeschylus (1984). “The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides”, p.135, Penguin
“Melissa Pritchard's prose, that darkly lyrical firmament, is brightened by the dizzy luminous arrangement of her stars and satellites, her great gifts to us: humor, irony, kindness, brilliance.”
“She's French, so she's teaching them French, and their previous nanny was Spanish, so they're fluent in Spanish.”
“I have done what they expected of me. I have curtsied for my Queen and made my debut. This is what I have anticipated eagerly for years. So why do I feel so unsatisfied? Everyone is merry. They haven't a care in the world. And perhaps that is it. How terrible it is to have no cares, no longings. I do not fit. I feel too deeply and want too much.”
“Life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis.”

Source : William Empson (2000). “The complete poems”, Lane, Allen

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