"When you've played this game for ten years and gone to bat seven-thousand times and gotten two-thousand hits do you know what that really means? It means you've gone zero for five-thousand."

-- Reggie Jackson

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“As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions.”

Source : Debates (Hansard) No.155 - House of Commons of Canada, www.ourcommons.ca. May 16, 2007.
“Growing up, I was encouraged to get a good education, get a real job doing something I enjoyed, and, should the opportunity present itself, consider public service as just that: a chance to serve, not an end in itself.”
“The U.S. has been a great friend all these years, but as soon as Africa found itself starting to move up, the U.S. is really disengaging.”
“If Christianity has really come from heaven, it must renew the whole life of man; it must govern the life of nations no less than that of individuals; it must control a Christian when acting in his public and political capacity as completely as when he is engaged in the duties which belong to him as a member of a family circle.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 136), 1895.
“We must not be frightened nor cajoled into accepting evil as deliverance from evil. We must go on struggling to be human, though monsters of abstractions police and threaten us.”

Source : Robert Hayden (2013). “Collected Poems”, p.98, W. W. Norton & Company
“I was lucky enough to get a very good agent at the age of 15, and got my first film when I was 16, so it's been rolling on since then.”
“When two broken people bring their broken pieces together, chances are they will never become a whole anything.”
“When Medicare was first enacted in 1965, it provided coverage for hospitalization, doctor visits and surgeries, but there was no coverage for prescription medications.”

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