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
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The right of individual property is no doubt the very corner-stone of civilization, as hitherto understood; but I am a little impatient of being told that property is entitled to exceptional consideration because it bears all the burdens of the state. It bears those, indeed, which can be most easily borne, but poverty pays with its person the chief expenses of war, pestilence, and famine.
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Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.
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The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.
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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
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There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
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Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
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Children are God's Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace.
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And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.
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Fate loves the fearless.
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Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.
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Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
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Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief.
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It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.
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Freedom is the only law which genius knows.