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I started getting letters from college in the tenth grade. ↗

— James Worthy

#getting #grade #i #letters #started

Some musicians play blues, others classical jazz or bluegrass. I like to play political roles because I can merge my political interests with my creative interests. ↗

— Jeffrey Wright

#bluegrass #blues #classical #creative #i

Like any good shaman, professional baseball player, or politician, my mother always answered questions with questions. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#baseball

I didn't know if I still had it in me to be really dangerous, but I thought so. It's like knocking someone off a bike with a baseball bat; you never really lose the knack. ↗

— Simon R. Green

#dangerous #baseball

Many do not realize that we here must die. For those who realize this, quarrels end. ↗

— Anonymous

#dhammapada #theravada #buddhism

Idle is the day and lantern the hour as I delight in the splendor of your kiss grog. ↗

— Isabel Yosito

#delight #hour #i #idle #kiss

Liberalism seems to be related to the distance people are from the problem. ↗

— Whitney M. Young

#liberalism #people #problem #related #seems

It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#poverty #rights #science #science

No one ever said that you would live to see the repercussions of everything you do, or that you have guarantees, or that you are not obliged to wander in the dark, or that everything will be proved to you and neatly verified like something in science. Nothing is: at least nothing that is worthwhile. I didn't bring you up only to move across sure ground. I didn't teach you to think that everything must be within our control or understanding. Did I? For, if I did, I was wrong. I fyou won't take a chance, then the powers you refuse because you cannot explain them, will, as they say, make a monkey out of you. ↗

— Mark Helprin

#science #uncertainty #science

Its not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong. ↗

— Jon Krakauer

#strength #empowerment