"Gene Tunney called Gibbons 'the perfect boxer.' Gene said he learned more about the technique of boxing and punching from watching Mike training in New York gymnasiums and in actual fights in Gotham than he learned from any other individual associated with the fistic sport. Moreover, Tunney has told me it was Gibbons' clean-cut victory over Jack Dillon, the mighty light heavyweight from Indianapolis, that inspired in him the belief he could whip Jack Dempsey."

-- George Aaron Barton

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“Market timing, by the way, is a tag some buy-and-hold investors use to put down anything that involves using your brain. These are the same people who like to watch the locomotive coming and get run down in the name of discipline.”
“Often my very first flash of colour recognition, before it has been processed by the rest of the information in my brain, is the right one.”
“Advice is like cooking-you should try it before you feed it to others.”
“God, make me a man with thick skin and a soft heart. Make me a man who is tough and tender. Make me tough so I can handle life. Make me tender so I can love people. God, make me a man.”

Source : Darrin Patrick (2010). “Church Planter: The Man, the Message, the Mission”, p.12, Crossway
“Maybe youâ€™ll marry, maybe you wonâ€™t, maybe youâ€™ll have children, maybe you wonâ€™t, maybe youâ€™ll divorce at 40, maybe youâ€™ll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversaryâ€¦what ever you do, donâ€™t congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself either â€“ your choices are half chance, so are everybody elseâ€™s.”

Source : Song: Everybody's Free
“I love a straightforward character. I am the guy who loves Cyclops on the 'X-Men', because he is square.”
“By the help of microscopes, there is nothing so small, as to escape our inquiry; hence there is a new visible world discovered to the understanding.”

Source : Robert Hooke (1667). “Micrographia: Or, Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses. With Observations and Inquiries Thereupon”, p.18
“I've always thought of the T-shirt as the Alpha and Omega of the fashion alphabet, ... The White T.”

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