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词汇	today i consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth
词源	Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth. The words of New York Yankee hero Lou Gehrig on July 4, 1939, at a ceremony honoring him at Yankee Stadium. Gehrig, the “Iron Man” or the “Iron Horse,” had been forced to retire two months earlier by the insidious Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, which came to be called Lou Gehrig’s disease after him.
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