Fate. As a child, that word was often my only companion. It whispered to me from dark corners during lonely nights. It was the song of the birds in spring and the call of the wind through bare branches on a cold winter afternoon. Fate. Both my anguish and my solace. My escort and my cage.
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It has been since 2000 that we've gone in there and beat them. We never relaxed. ... JOEL WALTON You have to serve in time and time again. What we want out of our guys is the first ball they serve ... JOEL WALTON He has everything a top coach has. He has the leadership, the passion, the commitment, the dedicatio... BILL WALTON literally circled the globe with bureaus, from Baghdad to Johannesburg to Havana to Sydney to Hong K... JIM WALTON What Officer Davis didn't anticipate after he stopped one drunk driver was another drunk driver goin... PAUL WALTON I couldn't pass it up, ... You get excited. ... It's a very prestigious program. BILL WALTON Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people belie... SAM WALTON No man can lose what he never had IZAAK WALTON I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan's look good. BILL WALTON Also another time she had wakened in dead of night, thinking that something touched her, and when sh... EVANGELINE WALTON All that hullabaloo about somebody's net worth is just stupid, and it's made my life a lot m... SAM WALTON If I were omnipotent and omnibenevolent I wouldn't be so damn ineffable. JO WALTON It seemed like we slept through the first three innings and really put ourselves in a big hole. We n... JACOB WALTON I care more about the people in books than the people I see every day. JO WALTON Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit ... JO WALTON Are these black cats like the hare?" "No. They're smaller; they only want me to play with... EVANGELINE WALTON He's a big boy. I've never even stood beside someone that big. JOEL WALTON Whenever a member of the team can't participate anymore, there's this void because suddenly it seems... BILL WALTON Fourth-quarter earnings per share were about in line with consensus. Given strong results throughout... MYLES WALTON I still can't believe it was news that I get my hair cut at the barbershop. Where else would I get i... SAM WALTON It's probably not as progressive politically as it used to be, ... We still have echoes of that, but... RICHARD WALTON I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America. I am just tryi... SAM WALTON