"In 1950, when the Giants signed me, they gave me $15,000. I bought a 1950 Mercury. I couldn't drive, but I had it in the parking lot there, and everybody that could drive would drive the car. So it was like a community thing"

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Source : "Greatest All-Around Player in the History of Baseball". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 19, 1996.

Willie Mays

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“Anybody who thinks there's nothing wrong with this world needs to have his head examined. Just when things are going all right, without fail someone or something will come along and spoil everything. Somebody should write that down as a fundamental law of the Universe. The principle of perpetual disappointment. If there is a God who created this world, he should scrap it and try again.”

Source : "Sir James Dyson: Design Is Everyday Problem Solving" by Beth Carter, www.wired.com. May 1, 2012.
“The word right should be excluded from political language, as the word cause from the language of philosophy.”

Source : Auguste Comte, John Henry Bridges (1865). “A General View of Positivism”, p.383, London, Trübner and Company
“Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.”

Source : James Comey's Statement on the Investigation of Secretary Hillary Clinton’s Use of a Personal E-Mail System, www.fbi.gov. July 5, 2016.
“Growth is a substitute for equality of income. So long as there is growth there is hope, and that makes large income differentials tolerable.”
“A kind of golden hour one remembers for a life time... Everything was touched with magic.”
“Half-uttered praise is to the curious mind, as to the eye half-veiled beauty is, more precious than the whole.”
“I would love to be a spokes model for Karl Lagerfeld or Balenciaga or something like that.”
“We feel surprise when travellers tell us of the vast dimensions of the Pyramids and other great ruins, but how utterly insignificant are the greatest of these, when compared to these mountains of stone accumulated by the agency of various minute and tender animals!”

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