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This quotation examines the core nature of Life as articulated by Branch Rickey. Within historical and literary traditions, reflections on Life provide actionable mental models, challenging individuals to evaluate personal ethics, self-discipline, and daily actions.

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About Branch Rickey

Wesley Branch Rickey was an American professional baseball catcher, manager, sports executive, and team owner.
He was instrumental in breaking the baseball color line by signing black player Jackie Robinson. He also created the framework for the modern minor league farm system, encouraged the major leagues to add new teams through his involvement in the proposed Continental League, introduced the batting helmet, and created the standard 20-80 scouting scale. He was posthumously elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1967.

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"Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game."

— Branch Rickey
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"I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault."

— Branch Rickey
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"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions. Remember this in moments of decisive trial — an essential principle for the reflective life."

— Sy Bartlett
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"We older women in Europe are lucky not to be shoved away in a drawer."

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"When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time."

— Orison Swett Marden
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"Wisdom principle 47 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 23."

— Don Bensen
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