"I had a job to do, and I did it all these years to the best of my ability. That's what I'd like to leave behind as I finish my final game in Toronto."

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Source : Ernie Harwell (2004). “Life after baseball”

Ernie Harwell

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“Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.”

Source : "Books of the Times" by Charles Poore, The New York Times, p. 23, April 20, 1953.
“The Christian stands, not under the dictatorship of a legalistic 'you ought,' but in the magnetic field of Christian Freedom, under the empowering of the 'You may.'”

Source : Helmut Thielicke (1966). “Theological Ethics: Foundations”
“All problems are illusions of the mind.”
“Life itself was hard enough without monosynaptic sociopaths preying on folks.”
“We have more to learn from animals than animals have to learn from us.”
“Eating and food are a wonderful part of our life's experience, and half of us are walking around dreading having to figure out what to put in our mouths.”
“First we draw what we see; then we draw what we know; finally we see what we know.”
“To see is one thing; to picture or visualise is another. A person can see things, only when his eyes are open, and when his surroundings are illuminated; but he can have pictures in his mind's eye, when his eyes are shut and when the world is dark.”

Source : Gilbert Ryle (2009). “The Concept of Mind: 60th Anniversary Edition”, p.223, Routledge

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