"All the Padres need is a fly ball in the air."

-- Jerry Coleman

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“Communism has failed; capitalism has failed; common sense has failed; now has to fail stupidity.”
“I've been writing fiction as long as I've been writing poetry. It's just that the poetry took off, and it took me a lot longer to figure out how to write a story.”
“Dean Burk, PhD, of the National Cancer Institute (head of their Cytochemistry Section and 32-year veteran at the agency) declared in a (May 30,1972) letter to (congressman Louis Frey, Jr.) that high officials of the FDA, AMA and ACS (American Cancer Society), were deliberately falsifying information, literally lying...and in other ways thwarting potential cancer cures to which they were opposed.”
“It's like the human race has been programmed for misery.”
“The problem of vindicating an omnipotent and omniscient God in the face of evil is insurmountable. Those who claim to have surmounted it, by recourse to notions of free will and other incoherencies, have merely heaped bad philosophy onto bad ethics.”
“Previously known for its six syllables of sweetness and light, reconciliation has become the political fighting word of the year.”
“Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.”
“Sometimes since I've been in the garden I've looked up through the trees at the sky and I have had a strange feeling of being happy as if something was pushing and drawing in my chest and making me breathe fast. Magic is always pushing and drawing and making things out of nothing. Everything is made out of magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden - in all the places.”

Source : Frances Hodgson Burnett (2003). “The Secret Garden: Centennial Edition”, p.143, Penguin

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