"My father loved baseball and he cultivated my talent. I don't think he ever had any doubt in his mind that I would play professional baseball someday."

-- Bob Feller

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“The pace at eBay was frantic and urgent. We knew that if we didn't move fast, somebody would come into the market and quash us. Participant doesn't make a lot of sense from a financial investment perspective, so it's unlikely that other people will be approaching the business in the same way. So you see less urgency; you see a thoroughness and willingness to spend extra time to get things right. Which I think is really important.”

Source : "The Indie Movie Mogul". Interview with Michael S. Malone, www.wired.com. February 1, 2006.
“So far as the economic condition of society and the general mode of living and thinking were concerned, I might claim to have lived in the time of the American Revolution.”

Source : Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers
“We're going to miss Damon. He was a great shooter. . . . He got what he wanted, but he gave up a lot. No more night life, no more warm weather and no more a lot of media attention. . . . I guess this was his first shot at getting something big. I guess he had to take it.”
“Sometimes tradition is a way of keeping going.”

Source : Maxine Kumin (1974). “The designated heir”, Viking Adult
“Yeah, sometimes life really sucks," she says. "But you know what I'm holding on for?" I raise my eyebrows. She raises hers, too, mimicking me. "The moments that don't suck," she says. "The trick is to notice them when they come around.”
“You will ruin no more lives as you ruined mine. You will wring no more hearts as you wrung mine. I will free the world of a poisonous thing. Take that, you hound, and that! - and that! - and that! - and that!”
“Self-regulation stands in relation to regulation the way self-importance stands in relation to importance.”

Source : "With Grenfell Tower, we've seen what 'ripping up red tape' really looks like" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2017.
“If someone grabbed me, I'd probably be able to choke them out in about eight seconds.”

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