"The Cubs are gonna shine in sixty-nine."

-- Ernie Banks

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“Success requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency.”
“If you think about the unthinkable long enough it becomes quite reasonable.”
“I never really felt aware of my gender, being a woman, and whether that was in my favor or not. Because there's nothing I can do about that. I'm also really grateful to my parents for having brought me up to feel that equality is just something you take for granted. I hope that our generation will really change that. I think there's a long way to go.”
“Pain, no matter how prolonged it seems to be, is just a short-lived thing that one day, in one way or another, we will overcome.”
“Caxtons are mechanical birds with many wings And some are treasured for their markings - They cause the eyes to melt Or the body to shriek without pain.”

Source : Craig Raine (2016). “My Grandmother's Glass Eye: A Look at Poetry”, p.155, Atlantic Books Ltd
“There was no last animal I treated. When young farm lads started to help me over the gate into a field or a pigpen, to make sure the old fellow wouldn't fall, I started to consider retiring.”
“I am extremely sorry for the stress and confusion I have brought on the Braves organization.”
“They can only set free men free... And there is no need of that: Free men set themselves free.”

Source : James Oppenheim (1914). “Songs for the New Age”

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