"What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it before? The answer was perfectly obvious. I would send a midget up to bat."

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Source : Bill Veeck, Ed Linn (2012). “Veeck--As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck”, p.12, University of Chicago Press

Bill Veeck

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“I was a 21-year-old kid back then and I had my whole career in front of me. We were so close to reaching the World Cup and then we all woke up the next morning to realize our dreams had been dashed.”
“Money always talks louder than morality.”

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“A true warrior can only serve others, not himself...When you become a mercenary, you're just a bully with a gun.”
“As one individual changes, the system changes.”
“Torture presupposes, it requires, it craves the abrogation of our capacity to imagine others suffering, dehumanizing them so much that their pain is not our pain. It demands this of the torturer, placing the victim outside and beyond any form of compassion or empathy, but also demands of everyone else the same distancing, the same numbness.”
“The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.”

Source : Louis I. Kahn (1986). “Louis I. Kahn: l'uomo, il maestro”
“A strong mentor can help a young woman find and advance in the career of her dreams that otherwise may have seemed impossible.”

Source : "Increasing STEM Education for Our Nation’s Women" by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 21, 2014.
“Personally, I'm tired of hearing the whole have-you-no-decency routine from people who have made quite clear that they possess none themselves.”

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