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"I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience."
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"Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against."
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"A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion."
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"How long does the experience of pleasure or pain stay with you? For as long as there is weakness within. Then, further ahead they will not be there. There, one remains the 'Knower' of experience of pleasure and pain."
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"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."
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"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."
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"Simultaneously the whole party moved toward the water, super-ready from the long, forced inaction, passing from the heat to the cool with the gourmandise of a tingling curry eaten with chilled white wine."
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"Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake."
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"Mr Lorry asks the witness questions:Ever been kicked? Might have been.Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord."
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"Elders in the dark see better than children in the light."
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"Beyond these moments, she could hardly count the fumbling ministrations of boys in high school who, even to her senior prom, never went beyond sticky pleasantries. With one exception, it was just a sort of half-clothed handshake for bragging rights, none hers."
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"If a reporter doesn't like the person he's writing about, it shows up in his article."
Writing
"I see a lot of people who love their jobs. I see some garbage collectors smiling as they go about their work."
Love
"I owe a large part of my success to Joe Brown, who helped me both as a player and a person."
Success
"I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience."
Experience
"That's where the future lies, in the youth of today."
Future
"I'm a God-fearing man who worships with my heart and with my life."
Life
"Human beings are pampered by the Lord. Their real tests don't come until later in life."
Life
"Vietnam helped me realize who the true heroes really are in this world. It's not the home-run hitters."
Home
"I wasn't out drinking and abusing my body. I simply loved to go out and dance."
Dance
"I've always been a slave to my heart."
Heart
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