Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.
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And if I should live to be The last leaf upon the tree In the spring, Let them smile, as I do now, At the old forsaken bough Where I cling.Oliver Wendell Holmes
I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
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And when you stick on conversation's burrs, Don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs.
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Love prefers twilight to daylight.
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Everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a great deal better to be made in that way than not to be made at all.
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