"Whatever I contributed to the unique morale of the Cardinals was part of this growth, and so, of course, was my decision to have it out in public with the owners of organized baseball."

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Source : Curt Flood, Richard Carter (1971). “The way it is”, Trident Press (WA)

Curt Flood

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“The Soviet Union has long been proposing to outlaw chemical weapons, to remove them from the arsenals of states. We are prepared for resolution of this problem either on a global basis or piece by piece. As one of the first steps the USSR and the other socialist countries proposed in January 1984 that agreement be reached on ridding Europe of all types of chemical weapons.”

Source : "World Peace and the Developing Countries" Joseph Rotblat, Ubiratan D'Ambrosio, (p. 126), 1986.
“It goes to extremes - from people saying I'm the best of all-time to people saying, "I hate that white boy." Who cares? At the end of the day, if people don't like you, they're not your friends anyway.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I am interested in the gap between what people say and what they think - the undiscovered world of people's lives. Lives of quiet desperation.”

Source : "Richard Eyre: 'I don't feel directing has to be a young man's game'". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. November 3, 2012.
“If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody.”
“In the intercourse of social life, it is by little acts of watchful kindness recurring daily and hourly,--and opportunities of doing kindnesses if sought for are forever starting up,--it is by words, by tones, by gestures, by looks, that affection is won and preserved. He who neglects these trifles yet boasts that, whenever a great sacrifice is called for, he shall be ready to make it, will rarely be loved. The likelihood is, he will not make it; and if he does, it will be much rather for his own sake than for his neighbor's.”
“Does life have any meaningful purpose?”
“Seeking of the truth should be not only part of the Justice Department and part of our judicial system, but also should be... a goal of reporters today.”
“Truth is, I've always been selling out. The difference is that in the past, I looked like I had integrity because there were no buyers.”

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