"To me, there is no more conscientious umpire in the Major Leagues than Jim Joyce. He gives you a hellacious effort every time."

-- Tony La Russa

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“I can't explain why I don't read comments. Maybe because I worked at Time for so long and they don't have them, so I keep forgetting that they're there.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I am firmly convinced that in the world of today all nations will be forced to the conclusion that cooperation for law, justice, and peace is the only alternative to a constant race in armaments-including atomic armaments-and to other disruptive practices that will bring the nations participating in them on either side to a common ruin, the equivalent of universal suicide.”
“A government resting on the minority is an aristocracy, not a Republic, and could not be safe with a numerical and physical force against it, without a standing army, an enslaved press and a disarmed populace.”
“Each of us is the sum of our scars.”

Source : Matthew Woodring Stover (2008). “Blade of Tyshalle”, p.740, Del Rey
“...you have to understand that motherhood has to be your priority. It's important work.”
“All my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large.”
“Having had loving people who brought me up, and then I find another set of people. That really is a double blessing.”
“Golf is a game that creates emotions that sometimes cannot be sustained with the club still in one's hand.”

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