Month: July 2008
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Reach
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn’t mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.Edward R. Murrow
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Failure
Baseball teaches us, or has taught most of us, how to deal with failure. We learn at a very young age that failure is the norm in baseball and … errors [are] part of the game, part of its rigorous truth.Francis T. Vincent, Jr.
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Brotherhood
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.Samuel Johnson
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Psychopath Test
Read this question, come up with an answer and then scroll down to the bottom for the result.This is not a trick question. It is as it reads. No one I know has gotten it right.While at the funeral of her own mother, a woman met a man who she did not know.She thought he…
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Bumper Sticker
If you’re close enough to read this you just violated your restraining order.Observed on Snelling Avenue in Saint Paul, 17-Jun-2008
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Single best one-line defense of how a democratic society works
A discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty.Mark Twain in an unpublished response to Briton Matthew Arnold’s criticism of himself