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“What I got out of baseball is what I have today, and I've got to look at that. I still see some of my friends that never made it past Triple-A. I made that last big step. I was lucky. I'm in love with my land. I got it all from playing ball. It gives me prestige. Someone says, 'What you got?' I say, 'One hundred and twenty-one acres of nice land.'”

Giving Looks Made Stills Bigs Today Lasts Past Steps Nice Land Lucky Hundred My Friends Baseball Balls Give Me Twenties Made It Twenty One Prestige Acres

Author:Mark Fidrych

“In the ten years I was president of the Teamsters, I had raised the membership from eight hundred thousand to more than 2 million and made it the largest single labor union the world.”

World Years Made President Millions Thousand Ten Hundred Labor Unions Raised Eight Made It Membership Labor Union

Author:Jimmy Hoffa

“The concept of individual rights is so prodigious a feat of political thinking that few men grasp it fully - and two hundred years have not been enough for other countries to understand it. But this is the concept to which we owe our lives - the concept which made it possible for us to bring into reality everything of value that any of us did or will achieve or experience.”

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“Solomon'sexcess became an insult upon the privileges of mankind; for by the same plan of luxury, which made it necessary to have forty thousand stalls of horses,--he had unfortunately miscalculated his other wants, and so had seven hundred wives.... Wise--deluded man!”

Men Want Made Wise Wife Plans Mankind Thousand Hundred Horse Seven Privilege Luxury Made It Insult Forty Excess Deluded Solomon

Author:Laurence Sterne

“I have made it a practice for several years to read the Bible through in the course of every year. I usually devote to this reading the first hour after I rise every morning. As, including the Apocrypha, it contains about fourteen hundred chapters, and as I meet with occasional interruptions, when this reading is for single days, and sometimes for weeks, or even months, suspended, my rule is to read five chapters every morning, which leaves an allowance of about one-forth of the time for such interruptions.”

Source: The Russian memoirs of John Quincy Adams: his diary from 1809-1814

“[Mark] Twain is pointing at you. You, the reader of the book one hundred and thirty years ago and today. That is what has made it a great American novel and the most widely read book in American Literature around the world today.”

World Years Made Book Today Literature Novel Reader Hundred Years Ago Mark Made It Around The World Thirty Pointing World Today Thirty Years Great American American Literature

Author:Hal Holbrook

“There's a kind of poetic aspect to inert gas. And remember, first of all, they were completely unknown a hundred years earlier. We just didn't know about them. And then when they were discovered in the atmosphere, the idea that this is a material that would breathe in and exhale and becomes part of us for a while made it even more intriguing. The names, the Greek names, are interesting, too - if you translate neon, xenon and so forth are kind of interesting.”

Ifs Knows Years Firsts Kind Made Ideas Remember Names Interesting Materials Hundred Aspect Breathe Made It Atmosphere Greek Gas Poetic Translate Intriguing Neon Xenon

Author:Robert Barry

“That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.”

Heart Made Said Wisdom Beautiful Spiritual Laughing My Heart Hundred Rose Made It Islamic Islamic Wisdom

Book:The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi

Source: The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi

“There is a proper way to greet the sentinels in Ceris, certain patterns and forms that you must observe when presented to Queen Islanzadí, and a hundred different manners in which to greet those around you, if it’s not better to just remain quiet.” “With all your customs,” Eragon risked saying, “it seems as though you’ve only made it easier to offend people.” A smile flickered across her lips. “Perhaps.”

Source: The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance