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There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own. ↗

— Berenice Abbott

#copy #could #evolve #know #many

I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still looking for it. ↗

— Hank Aaron

#before #doubted #guys #hear #i

The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting. ↗

— Hank Aaron

#bat #favor #fellow #fretting #got

Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring. ↗

— Nelson Algren

#city #even #october #sort #spring

If it had been our intention to take Iraq, if it had been our intention to destroy the country, if it had been our intention to overrun the country, we could have done it unopposed. ↗

— Norman Schwarzkopf

#could #country #destroy #done #had

Didn't come up here to read. Came up here to hit. ↗

— Hank Aaron

#come #here #hit #read #up

The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. ↗

— Felix Adler

#dark #great #hero #kindles #life

On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again. ↗

— Hank Aaron

#again #back #been #blacks #bus

I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland. ↗

— Mahmoud Abbas

#ceaseless #colonial #come #courageous #decades

You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done. ↗

— Felix Adler

#bake #because #bread #build #done