"When you're your parents' one shot at a genetic legacy, you may get to attend all the best schools, wear all the best clothes and eat all the best foods - at least relative to children in multiple-sibling households. But you also wind up with an overweening sense of your own importance."

-- Jeffrey Kluger

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“One is telling a story about old times when someone breaks in with a little detail that he happens to know, implying that one's own version is inaccurate â€” disgusting behavior!”

Source : Sei Shōnagon (1967). “The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon”
“If the veteran only has a year or two left on his contract, teams are hesitant to trade a draft pick for a player in that position. Why pay a big cap number for a guy you might only have for a short time And then there's the reality that the veteran and the agent would probably want to be on the open market anyway, figuring they'll get more money that way. The system is not conducive to making a deal for a veteran.”
“The 'Hipster Nerds' like stuff because they hate it. It's like they ironically like it.”
“I found out if you're a funny guy, a lot of people like you.”
“You got a problem?" he drawled, obviously expecting me to pee my pants before falling to the ground and groveling like an unworthy subject of the Emperor. And that was all it took. A new, screw-you attitude took precedence, trampling my fear under its boots. A highly dangerous approach, I still found it much easier to bear. "Well it all goes back to my childhoodâ€¦." I began,”

Source : Jennifer Rardin (2011). “Once Bitten, Twice Shy: Book One of the Jaz Parks Series”, p.61, Hachette UK
“I just want Texas to be number one in something other than executions, toll roads and property taxes.”
“Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe, how much it altered her person for the worse.”
“I love my hockey, but if you can do that and go home and just be a dad and husband, then you have the best of both worlds.”

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