He was real consistent down the stretch last year, and he's carried it over to this year. He was fighting himself. He didn't have a lot of sink all night, but he got through it. He battled without his best stuff. You look at the games where he's pitched well and come up empty, it's good to see him get a win.
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JEFF SCHULKENS Raul ? he struggled at times last year when he was here, but everyone knew he had games like this on... GEOVANY SOTO We'd like to see him more aggressive attacking the strike zone and being committed to what he's doin... RICH DUBEE This is a lifelong dream. We have high expectations at Grandview and he set his goal this year. We w... ANDY DISABATO At some point he seemed to lose all confidence trying to break down the Berlin Wall. He was still fi... VLADIMIR KRAMNIK Last year he was the young guy, and now he's our seasoned veteran. He's come miles since last year. ... DOUG LANGHALS He's healthy. He's probably a lot healthier now than he was a year ago at this time. He was fighting... ERIC PRICE Year by year, his life wasn't amounting to anything at all...And yet, another part of him had expand... KIRAN DESAI He was lonely because he could imagine himself as anything but himself and as anywhere but where he ... WENDELL BERRY He's bigger and faster. 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earth would have been changed. BLAISE PASCAL Man's greatness lies in his power of thought. BLAISE PASCAL You always admire what you really don't understand. BLAISE PASCAL It is false zeal to keep truth while wounding charity BLAISE PASCAL Men of quality are not threatened by women of equality BLAISE PASCAL Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever i... BLAISE PASCAL Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere BLAISE PASCAL The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing BLAISE PASCAL The heart has reasons that reason cannot know. BLAISE PASCAL Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts. BLAISE PASCAL Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself. BLAISE PASCAL The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread. BLAISE PASCAL Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. BLAISE PASCAL Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction. BLAISE PASCAL I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room. BLAISE PASCAL Our notion of symmetry is derived from the human face. Hence, we demand symmetry horizontally and in... BLAISE PASCAL Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it. BLAISE PASCAL Peggy Atwood, Alice Munro, Hugh Hood, Michael Ondaatje - these are all old friends from my early 20s... CLARK BLAISE Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in ti... BLAISE PASCAL Little things console us because little things afflict us. BLAISE PASCAL The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. BLAISE PASCAL You always admire what you really don't understand. BLAISE PASCAL Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately. BLAISE PASCAL The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. BLAISE PASCAL Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gambl... BLAISE PASCAL Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary. BLAISE PASCAL Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offend... BLAISE PASCAL All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone. BLAISE PASCAL In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who d... BLAISE PASCAL Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere. BLAISE PASCAL Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side... BLAISE PASCAL Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much. BLAISE PASCAL In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others ... BLAISE PASCAL I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friend... BLAISE PASCAL Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree. BLAISE PASCAL We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it. BLAISE PASCAL If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. Ho... BLAISE PASCAL Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend... BLAISE PASCAL When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we... BLAISE PASCAL Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have differen... BLAISE PASCAL Nothing is as approved as mediocrity, the majority has established it and it fixes its fangs on what... BLAISE PASCAL Rivers are roads that move and carry us whither we wish to go.
[Fr., Les rivieres sont des chemins... BLAISE PASCAL He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for
his guide.
[Fr., Les rivieres son... BLAISE PASCAL Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe n... BLAISE PASCAL I have only made this letter rather long because I have not had
time to make it shorter.
[Fr., Je... BLAISE PASCAL India is decidedly not anything that was part of my upbringing or part of my experience or part of m... CLARK BLAISE Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything ... BLAISE PASCAL If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves ha... BLAISE PASCAL We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them ... BLAISE PASCAL To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity. BLAISE PASCAL I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter. BLAISE PASCAL A jester, a bad character.
[Fr., Diseur de bon mots, mauvais caractere.] BLAISE PASCAL It is not only old and early impressions that deceive us; the charms of novelty have the same power. BLAISE PASCAL We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view t... BLAISE PASCAL By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and ma... BLAISE PASCAL For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, ... BLAISE PASCAL Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, stil... BLAISE PASCAL We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart. BLAISE PASCAL We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us... BLAISE PASCAL The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of. BLAISE PASCAL Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about e... BLAISE PASCAL People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by other... BLAISE PASCAL One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of lif... BLAISE PASCAL Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which h... BLAISE PASCAL Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism. BLAISE PASCAL Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force. BLAISE PASCAL Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea ... BLAISE PASCAL Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired : even I who write this, a... BLAISE PASCAL The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its ori... BLAISE PASCAL Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny. BLAISE PASCAL Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and... BLAISE PASCAL What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admi... BLAISE PASCAL Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous... BLAISE PASCAL The present is never our goal: the past and present are our means: the future alone is our goal. Thu... BLAISE PASCAL A mere trifle consoles us for a mere trifle distresses us. BLAISE PASCAL