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There are several insights at the heart of the A's system that I think are wonderful for baseball. One, that it's a team game. That no one player is going to make that much of a difference to your team, so for god's sake don't go blow a quarter of your budget on one guy. ↗


— Michael Lewis


#blow #budget #difference #game #go

You don't know what it's like to grow up with a mother who never said a positive thing in her life, not about her children or the world, who was always suspicious, always tearing you down and splitting your dreams straight down the seams. When my first pen pal, Tomoko, stopped writing me after three letters she was the one who laughed: You think someone's going to lose life writing to you? Of course I cried; I was eight and I had already planned that Tomoko and her family would adopt me. My mother of course saw clean into the marrow of those dreams, and laughed. I wouldn't write to you either, she said. She was that kind of mother: who makes you doubt yourself, who would wipe you out if you let her. But I'm not going to pretend either. For a long time I let her say what she wanted about me, and what was worse, for a long time I believed her. ↗


— Junot Díaz


#mother #dreams

Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong. ↗


— G. Gordon Liddy


#be strong #better #does #example #for example

I like who I am. ↗


— Kid Rock


#i #i am #like #who

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. ↗


— Abraham Lincoln


#be true #being #esteem #esteemed #every

Family love is messy, clinging, and of an annoying and repetitive pattern, like bad wallpaper. ↗


— P. J. O'Rourke


#bad #clinging #family #like #love

Right now too much American time and resources are spent dealing with situations caused by our dependence on oil that we import from unstable countries. ↗


— Dan Lipinski


#caused #countries #dealing #dependence #import

I plot the first 5 or 6 chapters quite minutely, and also the end. So I know where I am going but not how I'm going to get there, which gives characters the chance to develop organically, as happens in real life as you get to know a person. ↗


— Joanna Trollope


#am #chance #chapters #characters #develop

Sometimes when I listen to fellow progressives, I wonder if the only lesson we took away from the '04 elections is that politics is a word game. ↗


— Eric Liu


#elections #fellow #game #i #i wonder

There are not wings of dreams that have not previously dealt with the flight of black thoughts. ↗


— Sorin Cerin


#dreams






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