"Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?"

-- Bill Veeck

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“It's just interesting how people relate my success when I would like to think that I worked my ***** off for a reason and that it's about the music and not because I was on a TV show.”
“Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.”
“Making people laugh is one of the highest achievements you can have. And when you can make someone laugh and cry, alternatively, as Chaplin does - now that's the highest of all personal achievements. I don't know that I aim for it, but I recognize it as the supreme goal.”
“Once the process [of conversion] is begun and continues...you are continually turning inward toward God and away from your own egocentricity...you have to see this selfish side of yourself in order to turn away from it. I measure God by everything I am not. I begin with that.”
“To be free of the discriminating is to manifest miraculous awareness-awareness that is miraculously simple, miraculously unadorned.”
“The Bowling Green game was a big-time environment. We wanna see that for all the games.”
“No man who is in a hurry is quite civilised.”

Source : Will Durant, Ariel Durant (1939). “The Story of Civilization: The life of Greece; being a history of Greek civilization from the beginnings, and of civilization in the Near East from the death of Alexander, to the Roman conquest; with an introduction on the prehistoric culture of Crete”
“Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.”

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