After thoughtful deliberations with my family, I am announcing my decision to withdraw from the World Baseball Classic. When faced with the decision to choose between my country, the United States of America, and my Dominican heritage, I decided I will not dishonor either.
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Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children -Alex Haley
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We did the triple, but in all honesty, I suppose we're supposed to display some gratitude. We are grateful because, you know, voted for by the people and all that, we're very happy about that but who else was going to be the best British band at the moment, you know?
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Success is not the place one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.
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I am a big fan of vampires. I've always been obsessed with the genre, and the beautiful romanticism and erotic kind of nature of the immortal being, the undead who lives on human blood.
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The talent, the technical facilities, and the intelligence of the people - I just love London.
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As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence.
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The life of a repo man is always intense.
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Alex Sebastian: Mother, mother. Mrs. Sebastian: Why are you up so early?...
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The past record of standing back and allowing trade and investment to easily trump the human rights concerns can't stand,
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Fed speakers have been on message, and the belief is that U.S. yields will continue to improve relative to Europe, the UK and Japan, and that will continue to underpin the dollar,
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It is long accepted by the missionaries that morality is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing people wore.
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Our efforts were fantastic. We can play better, but the spirit, determination and passion were there... We're still alive.
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I've had to deal with everything but everyone has helped me, including Sir Alex Ferguson, to get through. George Best was a good friend of mine. We loved each other, we both knew where we were coming from.
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Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.
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The influence of prayer on the human mind and body is as demonstrable as that of secreting glands. Its results can be measured in terms of increased physical buoyancy, greater intellectual vigor, moral stamina, and a deeper understanding of the realities underlying human relationships.
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We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition.
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Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.
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I will not eat anything that walks, runs, skips, hops or crawls. God knows that I've crawled on occasion, and I'm glad that no one ate me.
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'Please remember the hundreds of tiny empty stomachs in our communities. Winter is a tough time for birds and other small creatures as food can become buried beneath snow or frozen ground. Scatter seeds in your yard, nearby parks.'
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Racism is taught in our society... it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.
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We're at a time now where the rules keep getting rewritten. It's a constant learning curve.
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They stand like infantry at dawn waiting to be shipped to the front.
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To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural processes.
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That was a good meeting and we worked things out. We came out with a great attitude today and deserved this win.
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The last thing my father told me before he was taken to his death... was to love all creation.
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Getting ideas is like shaving if you don't do it every day, you're a bum.
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My best score ever is 103, but I've only been playing 15 years.
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Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else?
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If we can play like that every week we'll get some level of consistency.
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