James Russell
James Russell
Left-handed relief pitcher known for an average fastball and good slider who made his MLB debut in 2010 for the Chicago Cubs.
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth8 January 1986
CityCincinnati, OH
tests genius common
To make the common marvelous is the test of genius.
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They have rights who dare maintain them.
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Get but the truth once uttered, and 'tis like A star new-born that drops into its place And which, once circling in its placid round, Not all the tumult of the earth can shake.
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Slow are the steps of freedom, but her feet turn never backward.
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Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it.
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The first lesson of life is to burn our own smoke; that is, not to inflict on outsiders our personal sorrows and petty morbidness, not to keep thinking of ourselves as exceptional cases.
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Time makes ancient good uncouth.
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Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice.
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Winds wanders, and dews drip earthward; Rains fall, suns rise and set; Earth whirls, and all but to prosper A poor little violet.
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Whenever you have the kind of market that is taking shape now - a wildly volatile one with big pricing discrepancies - it plays right into the hands of managers who are very focused on research and stock picking.
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An angel stood and met my gaze, Through the low doorway of my tent; The tent is struck, the vision stays; I only know she came and went.
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Our American republic will endure only as long as the ideas of the men who founded it continue dominant.
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No mud can soil us but the mud we throw.
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If God made poets for anything, it was to keep alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the beautiful.