"For being book smart, I thought he (A. Barlett Giamatti) had a lot of street smarts, which is tough to find sometimes."

-- Whitey Herzog

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“I have always tried to keep an honest, age-appropriate line of communication open with my daughter,India, even during the teen years, a painful time of development when they usually shut down, and the last person they want to speak to is a parent. But India would always tell me what was going on, so I really encourage people to be as open with your children as you possibly can.”
“The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.”

Source : "Voluntary Action" by William Beveridge, (Ch. 12), 1948.
“I really am at a place where I think we need to feed every child at school for free and feed them a real school lunch that's sustainable and nutritious and delicious. It needs to be part of the curriculum of the school in the same way that physical education was part of the curriculum, and all children participated.”
“The American way of life, as I see it, is really the American way of death. Everything is determined by greed and the insatiable desire to be the richest and most powerful. And that desire is limitless.”
“He was impolite while making a point? This is Vlad the Impaler. His points usually come at the end of a long pole.”
“I always tell what I see.”
“After long centuries, agrarian civilization is weakening. Is sufficient attention being devoted to the arrangement and improvement of the life of the country people, whose inferior and at times miserable economic situation provokes the flight to the unhappy crowded conditions of the city outskirts, where neither employment nor housing awaits them?”
“It is sometimes easier to circumvent prevailing difficulties [in science] rather than to attack them.”

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