"The minor leagues were great. When you first sign, that is your big leagues."

-- Brian Roberts

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“The popularity of the famous device of the use of lands into England is said to be largely due to the mendicant friars of the then new Orders of St. Dominic and St. Francis, who, arriving in this country, in the first half of the thirteenth century, found themselves hampered by their own vows of poverty, no less than by the growing feeling against Mortmain in acquiring the provision of land absolutely necessary for their rapidly developing work.”

Source : Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”
“For me, bondage makes me feel powerless and annoyed. It's like, can you untie me?”

Source : "She’s Got Legs, She Knows How to Use Them". Interview with Ariella Gogol, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 14, 2009.
“What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory that is inelegant.”
“I try to respect everybody out here: players, caddies, fans, media.”

Source : "Q&A With Phil Mickelson". Interview with Bob Verdi, www.golfdigest.com. April 23, 2009.
“And when I go around and talk to schools, what I tell the kids are, first of all, you have to accept each other's differences. Some of you are going to be a crappy football player, some of you are going to be a great mathematician. Whatever it is, accept each other's differences and help prop each other up.”

Source : "Glenn Beck: An Hour With Author Vince Flynn". "Glenn Beck", www.foxnews.com. November 23, 2009.
“Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.”
“I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.”
“I'm used to coming up with a lot of parts. And I don't have to do that so much [with Divine Fits]. This is the kind of band I've always wanted to be in because we never set up any aesthetic rules when we started it. We just wrote and edited, and it ended up sounding like Divine Fits.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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