"I think umpires have too much power, without any system of checks and balances and the more money a player makes, the more the umpire tries to show off that power to him. Unfortunately, since I signed my contract my strike zone has suddenly become a lot larger."

-- Ozzie Smith

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“Better to be uneducated than educated by your government.”
“Remember that Abraham Lincoln was a Whig far longer than he was a Republican. As a whole, the Whigs looked upon banks and corporations as a more efficient means of development; the Jacksonian Democrats thought they were the tools of the devil, but Whigs like Lincoln disagreed. During his presidency, Lincoln favored the re-construction of a national financial system, and his most important 'internal improvement' project was the Pacific railroad.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“I committed to doing everything I could to put compassion on the scientific map.”
“It's true that the people that succeed in life are the people that keep getting up after they fall down, but no one gets through without falling down.”

Source : "Christopher Gorham of Covert Affairs: Overcoming Failure and Having Kids". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“When I was a little kid, I was the first kid in my neighborhood to have a pet alligator.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Data scientists are statisticians because being a statistician is awesome and anyone who does cool things with data is a statistician.”
“Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.”
“I love Jonathan Adler but more importantly I love throws. To clarify, a throw is not to be confused with a blanket. A blanket is to be slept under, a throw is to accent a chair or sofa and give the illusion that in some scenario someone might rest underneath it. In reality, this scenario does not exist and I never want it to.”

Source : "'New Girl' Star Max Greenfield Writes Special 'Goop' Newsletter for Gwyneth Paltrow" by Jordan Zakarin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 18, 2012.

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