"Minor league umpires are evaluated in their respective leagues each year and rated numerically. This enables umpires to know where they stand and helps them make prudent career decisions."

-- Jim Evans

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“The wealth of any ecosystem is its perennials. The primal herbivore-predator-disturbance-rest dance is literally the breath and pulse of the earth. Grasses recycle oxygen far more efficiently than trees. The turnover is faster. Grass reaches out and turns solar energy into carbon. Tillage hyper-aerates the soil, burning out carbon. But because a plant creates bilateral symmetry at the soil horizon, it sloughs off root mass when the top gets chopped off.”
“Everything is painful, so why not be honest about the pain?”

Source : John Patrick Shanley (1985). “Welcome to the Moon and Other Plays”, p.23, Dramatists Play Service Inc
“If there is any law governing the distribution of income between classes, it still remains to be discovered.”
“When you have a paper based system, you are relying on your memory to a large extent about the patient. Now the paper records can have various kinds of ticklers.”
“The human race's favorite method for being in control of facts is to ignore them.”

Source : "The decline and fall of science". Book by Celia Elizabeth Green, 1976.
“I first saw the site for Disneyland back in 1953, In those days it was all flat land - no rivers, no mountains, no castles or rocket ships - just orange groves, and a few acres of walnut trees.”
“In the technotronic society the trend would seem to be towards the aggregation of the individual support of millions of uncoordinated citizens, easily within the reach of magnetic and attractive personalities exploiting the latest communications techniques to manipulate emotions and control reason.”

Source : "Between Two Ages: America's Role in the Technetronic Era". Book by Zbigniew K. Brzezinski, 1970.
“I call the language of political figures, pundits and administrators 'the haute couture of language.'”

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