"Guessing what the pitcher is going to throw is 80% of being a successful hitter. The other 20% is just execution."

-- Hank Aaron

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“If I filled the Earth with blueberries, I would have the same number as atoms in a grapefruit.”
“I was born with a need to be the center of attention, and, of course, you're the center of the world when you're acting”
“... as recently as the mid-1970s, the most well-respected criminologists were predicting that the prison system would soon fade away. Prison did not deter crime significantly, many experts concluded. Those who had meaningful economic and social opportunities were unlikely to commit crimes regardless of the penalty, while those who went to prison were far more likely to commit crimes again in the future.”
“Love you more," I said playfully. "Not a chance," Xavier said, fully awake now. "I'm bigger, I can contain more love." "I'm smaller, therefore my love particles are more compressed, which means I can fit more in.”
“The map was just an accessory. She knew exactly where she was.”

Source : Galt Niederhoffer (2008). “The Romantics”, p.6, Macmillan
“[My] hunger and thirst was, and still remains: How do I get people who hate poetry to love me?”
“The atom can't be seen, yet its existence can be proved. And it is simple to prove that it can't ever be seen. It has to be studied by indirect evidence â€” and the technical difficulty has been compared to asking a man who has never seen a piano to describe a piano from the sound it would make falling downstairs in the dark.”

Source : "Carl Anderson. Some notes about his life and work at Caltech. The first of a series of biographical sketches of Caltech faculty members". Engineering and Science, Volume 15:1, October 1951.
“Women bring with them into the world a certain virtue, a divine gift that makes them adept at instilling such qualities as faith, courage, empathy and refinement in relationships and in cultures,”

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