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It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word.


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TERRY BROOKS All short women have a delayed fuse. Marry a taller woman: My wife was an inch or two taller than me...
MEL BROOKS The man who has begun to live more seriously within begins to live more simply without.
PHILLIPS BROOKS Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the d...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.
PHILLIPS BROOKS The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.
PHILLIPS BROOKS Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of ma...
PHILLIPS BROOKS It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the ...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men!
PHILLIPS BROOKS Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like ...
PHILLIPS BROOKS The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of t...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurre...
PHILLIPS BROOKS The feet of the humblest may walk in the field Where the feet of the Holiest trod, This, then, is th...
PHILLIPS BROOKS It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.
PHILLIPS BROOKS Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.
PHILLIPS BROOKS To say, 'well done' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made th...
PHILLIPS BROOKS Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
PHILLIPS BROOKS Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
PHILLIPS BROOKS Just keep taking chances and having fun.
GARTH BROOKS In the future, I'm sure there will be a lot more robots in every aspect of life. If you told peo...
RODNEY BROOKS When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that th...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other eth...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS I've always thought of myself as a reporter.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing wi...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, e...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this ident...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.
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