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who watched me play and thought I want to do that, and by the time they’re old enough there isn’t any league? Only college
“While independent India had been founded by high-born, well-educated men, by the twenty-first century few such types stood for elections, or voted in them, since the wealthy had extra-democratic means of securing their social and economic interests. Across India, poor people were the ones who took the vote seriously. It was the only real power they had. Another”
― Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
― Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
“This falling-out was to be more than personal, for the rift between Hamilton and Madison precipitated the start of the two-party system in America. The funding debate shattered the short-lived political consensus that had ushered in the new government. For the next five years, the political spectrum in America was defined by whether people endorsed or opposed Alexander Hamilton’s programs.”
― Alexander Hamilton
― Alexander Hamilton
“Lists, she thought, are the stories of our lives; they give a picture of who we are and what we do every day. The”
― Precious and Grace
― Precious and Grace
“Schalk, a catcher for the White Sox for seventeen years, no doubt got more than a few chances to use his favorite line about Cobb: “When Ty started to steal second, I would throw to third.”
― Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty
― Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty
“If Washington was the father of the country and Madison the father of the Constitution, then Alexander Hamilton was surely the father of the American government.”
― Alexander Hamilton
― Alexander Hamilton
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