"It can't be Nature, for it is not sense."

-- Charles Churchill

“If you want to hit a man in the chest, aim for his groin.”
“The most helpless person is the one who is helpless in reforming himself.”
“Without the hard little bits of marble which are called 'facts' or 'data' one cannot compose a mosaic; what matters, however, are not so much the individual bits, but the successive patterns into which you arrange them, then break them up and rearrange them.”
“All moments of joy include an element of happiness. But not all moments of happiness include joy. Happiness often comes from drive reduction-avoidance of pain or the pursuit of pleasure for pleasure's sake. The essence of joy, on the other hand, is spirit.”
“I had a great shoe contract and glove contract with a company who paid me a lot of money never to be seen using their stuff.”

Source : Bill Schroeder, Drew Olson, Craig Counsell, Bob Uecker (2016). “If These Walls Could Talk: Milwaukee Brewers: Stories from the Milwaukee Brewers Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box”, p.51, Triumph Books
“If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies.”
“All of us here are servants of the reading public. I am the head of the servants and I must show that I know better than any of the servants where the materials are found. I want to show that our service here is efficient and that we are really working to serve.”

Source : "Filipinos in History, Vol. 2" by National Historical Institute of the Philippines, 1989.
“It was good, and nothing good is truly lost. It stays part of a person, becomes part of their character. So part of you goes everywhere with me. And part of me is yours, forever”

Source : Rosamunde Pilcher (2013). “The Shell Seekers”, p.427, Macmillan

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