"On the day I was signed, Mr. Finley, the owner of the Athletics at that time came up to me and said, 'When you were six you ran away from home, and when your parents found you at a nearby lake, you had already caught two catfish and were pulling in a third. Now repeat it back to me.'"

-- Catfish Hunter

#Home Quotes #Two Quotes #Lakes Quotes

“It is hardly possible not to suspect the truth of this doctrine of atonement, when we consider that the general maxims to which it may be reduced, are nowhere laid down, or asserted, in the Scriptures, but others quite contrary to them.”
“It is in the interests of society to put the Pill into slot machines and to place cigarettes on prescription.”
“We believe in constitutional action in normal times; we believe in revolutionary action in exceptional times.”

Source : James Connolly, Peter Berresford-Ellis (1988). “James Connolly: Selected Writings”, p.45, Pluto Press
“Undocumented immigrants produced $1.58 billion in state revenues, which exceeded the $1.16 billion in state services they received. However, local governments bore the burden of $1.44 billion in uncompensated health care costs and local law enforcement costs not paid for by the state,”

Source : "Imagine a day without a Mexican" by Charles Garcia, www.cnn.com. March 3, 2012.
“In music the present is extended.”

Source : Ned Rorem (2013). “Knowing When to Stop: A Memoir”, p.326, Open Road Media
“Any well-established village in New England or the northern Middle West could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.”
“In 30 minutes, at high noon, more than 200 civilians are killed. Zionism carries out a massacre in the city of Lydda.”

Source : "My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel". Book by Ari Shavit, November 19, 2013.
“I'm constantly watching people. Watching their strengths and weaknesses. I find myself going into theater less and less, let alone horror. I gave that up when I was seven or eight years old.”

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