"...a great good is worth being long desired."

-- Vincent de Paul

#Wisdom Quotes #Long Quotes

“When you're asking someone for assistance, make it as easy as possible for them to say 'no' to you. You don't want someone helping you who doesn't really want to.”

Source : "The Power of 'No'" by Raymond Arroyo, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 9, 2012.
“But in a game, you have a pocket forming, your vision is better and - at least for me - I just get a better feel for what I'm doing.”
“I know that I've been given more than beyond measure. I come alive when I see beyond my fears. I know that I've been given more than earthly treasure. I come alive when I've broken down and given you control.”

Source : Song: Beyond Measure, Album: Beyond Measure, 2006
“The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.”
“Frederick Nietzsche was important to me, in teaching that it's okay to strive to improve the human being.”
“Baseball as I have said before to many... many parents it's not about wins and losses. It's about the life lessons that are learned on that baseball field. The perseverance, the hard work that it takes, dealing with failure.”

Source : "Rich 'Goose' Gossage". Interview with Chris Yandek, www.cyinterview.com. May 4, 2007.
“When I left here I left everything here. It's time to move on”
“In short, evolution is as close to being a scientific fact as is possible for any theory, given that science is open - ended and no one can predict with certainty what may change in the future. The prospect that evolution by natural selection, at least as a broad mechanism, will be overthrown in the future is about as likely as the prospect of finding out some day that the Earth is really flat. Unfortunately, those who regard these scientific facts as a threat to faith have chosen to distort and misrepresent them to the public.”

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