"What makes a good leadoff hitter? Deion Sanders had speed, but he wasn't the ideal leadoff hitter. What was his on-base percentage? The criteria shouldn't be speed, it should be getting on base."

-- Jack McKeon

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“The Devil's methods of opposition are those of alliance and antagonism, and the only serious one is the first. Let us beware of it. Do not let us imagine that we can take into our fellowship and enlist under one banner men who simply affirm truth about Jesus, unless in their own lives there is an absolute loyalty to the Lord Christ. Antagonism is the creation of force for the kingdom of God. Put a man in prison for Christ's sake, and the earthquake will surely follow, and the work will spread.”
“I'm not vicious really. I consider myself to be kindhearted. I love my mum.”
“And what is true of a shop-keeper is true of a shop-keeping nation.”

Source : A Letter from a Merchant in London to his Nephew in North America (1766) See Napoleon 5; Adam Smith 7
“Victories in life come through our ability to work around and over the obstacles that cross our path. We grow stronger as we climb our own mountains.”

Source : Marvin J. Ashton (1982). “Ye Are My Friends”, Shadow Mountain
“Having contemplated this admirable grove, I proceeded towards the shrubberies on the banks of the river, and though it was now late in December, the aromatic groves appeared in full bloom.”

Source : William Bartram (1958). “The Travels of William Bartram”, p.58, University of Georgia Press
“The republic, as I at least understand it, means association, of which liberty is only an element, a necessary antecedent. It means association, a new philosophy of life, a divine Ideal that shall move the world, the only means of regeneration vouchsafed to the human race.”
“My body is very nice to me. I have a lucky physique - I just don't take weight on.”
“Your body is a jewel box.....the jewel is your soul”

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