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“The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.”
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“I'm business savvy and my will is only to win. I can't hit rock bottom any lower. It's only up from here. The weight is off the shoulders with that.”
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“Sometimes beautiful things come into our lives out of nowhere. We can't always understand them, but we have to trust in them. I know you want to question everything, but sometimes it pays to just have a little faith.”
Source : Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.589, Delacorte Press
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“Barry Bonds in the news. Yesterday Barry Bonds' agent said that Bonds could hit as many as 1,000 home runs. And the agent admitted he's on more drugs than Barry Bonds.”
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“The contest is not between us and them, but between good and evil, and if those who would fight evil adopt the ways of evil, evil wins.”
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“The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the game's greatest players has engaged in a variety of acts which have stained the game, and he must now live with the consequences of those acts. There is absolutely no deal for reinstatement.”
Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti's remarks at the press conference banning Pete Rose from baseball, August 24, 1989.
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“Do not help the quick moneymakers who have delusions about taking possession of classics by smearing them with paint.”
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“Take a saint, and put him into any condition, and he knows how to rejoice in the Lord.”