"Men have to have heroes, but no man can ever be as big as the need, and so a legend grows around a grain of truth, like a pearl."

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Kid says to me, "You play baseball? What position? Left out?" and gets a big laugh from the rest of the class. Kid is only one person out of 6.792 billion humans on this planet. This planet is only one-eighth of the solar system, whose sun is one of two billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy. Put it that way, the comment loses it's importance.

— Jodi Picoult