"Anytime you give up one run in Coors Field you expect to win a ball game. It just shows how well Myers pitched."

-- Garrett Atkins

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“Anyone who has attempted to create knows the hellishness of it, which consists in the final inescapability from it. Knows that anything, however deadly humdrum to drug the senses, is preferable to it. Knows the gigantic effort to get started on the boundless, unwieldy, shapeless material; the forest of hesitations; of what to keep and what to throw out; the running-out terror and reluctance in one of finishing.”
“For we are all bound in stories, and as the years pile up they turn to stone, layer upon layer, building our lives.”
“The roles that are written for women as they grow older in theater are much richer and much more powerful.”
“Learning how to face fear really makes you invincible because you stop being scared.”
“I give the ball some sweet talk. I tell it that this isn't going to hurt a bit. I'm a friend and all I'm going to do is give it a nice little ride.”
“I have endeavoured to show that no absolute structural line of demarcation, wider than that between the animals which immediately succeed us in the scale, can be drawn between the animal world and ourselves; and I may add the expression of my belief that the attempt to draw a physical distinction is equally futile, and that even the highest faculties of feeling and of intellect begin to germinate in lower forms of life.”
“Pleasure which must be enjoyed at the expense of another's pain, can never be enjoyed by a worthy mind. Pleasure's couch is virtues grave.”
“Can you not see the numerous designs made by God as signs, similitudes, or analogies of resurrection? He has placed them in every era, the alteration of day and night, even in the coming and going of clouds.”

Source : Said Nursi (2005). “The Words: The Reconstruction of Islamic Belief and Thought”, p.97, Tughra Books

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