"Researchers measure that the average major-league pitcher puts 40 pounds of pressure on his shoulder by cocking and releasing the baseball. Curious how much more the body could take, those same researchers tested cadavers. The shoulder broke apart at just beyond 40 pounds."

-- Tom Verducci

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“The world is a heartbreaking place, without any question.”

Source : "I would have been perfect as a man". Interview with Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. October 09, 2010.
“I feel empty, not because of sadness, but because of relief, all the tension flowing out of me.”
“Three or four threads may be agitated, like telegraph wires, at the same time, and if I were to tap them all I would reveal such a mixture of innocence and duplicity, generosity and calculation, fear and courage, I cannot tell the whole truth simply because I would have to write four journals at once.”
“So, thanks God, our films, our first films were suddenly being appreciated by the Western media; especially France was very good, and Switzerland was very good.”
“It's amazing the gymnastics you can do when you don't want to do something. How you can force yourself against all the forces of nature. I threw myself backward.”
“My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.”

Source : Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.74
“A vision has to be within reach not in the air. It has to be achievable.”
“Most people don't know where they stand. One day their boss gives them an eye roll, and it can set back their whole day. It causes enormous stress.”

Source : Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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