"Initially, it (winning the 1967 American League Pennant) was what you would dream about in Little League. The winning pitcher, being on the mound to win the pennant, everyone congratulating me. But a few minutes later, you realize you're not going where you want to go. I was trying to get back in the dugout. Thank God for the Boston police, they were able to control the crowd. It was delirium."

-- Jim Lonborg

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“One way to define wisdom is the ability to see, into the future, the consequences of your choices in the present. That ability can give you a completely different perspective on what the future might look like.”
“Writing is not a great profession as a lot of writers proclaim. I write because this is something I can do. Another thingâ€”very often I think a lot of writers write because they have failed to do other things. How many writers canâ€™t drive? A lot. Theyâ€™re not practical. They are not capable in everyday life.”

Source : FaceBook post by Ha Jin from Dec 01, 2012
“I come from a really lovely, really smart family where the only stress was money and employment.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology.”
“My mom was always pretty supportive. She saw me do plays and she'd always act out the parts I did. My aunt, who played a big part in my life, was a little bit more reserved, because if they don't see you on TV every week they think you must be starving.”
“If the term education may be understood in so large a sense as to include all that belongs to the improvement of the mind, either by the acquisition of the knowledge of others or by increase of it through its own exertions, we learn by them what is the kind of education science offers to man. It teaches us to be neglectful of nothing - not to despise the small beginnings, for they precede of necessity all great things in the knowledge of science, either pure or applied.”
“The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.”
“If you've only got one day to live, come see the Toronto Maple Leafs. It'll seem like forever.”

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