"My punches are just as hard in Chicago as in New York."

-- Sonny Liston

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“Surrender your own poverty and acknowledge your nothingness to the Lord. Whether you understand it or not, God loves you, is present in you, lives in you, dwells in you, calls you, saves you and offers you an understanding and compassion which are like nothing you have ever found in a book or heard in a sermon.”
“Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.”
“It used to be the custom for the bachelor dinner to take place the night before the wedding. Now, however, the bridesmaids' and ushers' dinner is usually on that night, for a groom realizes that he and his attendants need some time in which to recover sufficiently to be able to distinguish the altar from the organ and walk up the aisle with no mishaps.”

Source : Alice-Leone Moats (1933). “No Nice Girl Swears”, New York : A. A. Knopf
“Work is born in us. We take to it kindly or unkindly. The terms may be easy or harsh, but the contract is binding.”
“How valuable NBC Magazine was in my career is questionable.”
“You tell me over and over and over again, my friend, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction.”

Source : Song: Eve Of Destruction
“I don't find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff.”
“Would Americans accept if we decided to come here and decide who your rulers should be? So why do you expect us Iranians to accept the idea that the United States shall come in there and decide who shall govern us?Of course, everyone knows that I'm also opposed to the Iranian regime and I have said that we must change the regime. But it is us, the Iranians, that must change the regime.”

Source : Interview With Reese Erlich, www.motherjones.com. March 11, 2007.

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