"If I hadn't met those two guys (Billy Martin and Whitey Ford) at the start of my career, I would have lasted another five years."

-- Mickey Mantle

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“Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.”
“Store spices in a cool, dark place, not above your stove. Humidity, light and heat will cause herbs and spices to lose their flavor.”
“Nothing is stranger or more ticklish than a relationship between people who know each other only by sight, who meet and observe each other daily - no hourly - and are nevertheless compelled to keep up the pose of an indifferent stranger, neither greeting nor addressing each other, whether out of etiquette or their own whim.”
“I hardly think a girl is much of a threat. I presume you searched her for weapons? But if she attempts to suffocate me with her straw mattress, I promise to call out for help.”

Source : Mary Hoffman (2010). “Stravaganza: City of Masks”, p.217, Bloomsbury Publishing
“Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.”

Source : Richard Whately (1856). “Thoughts and Apophthegms: From the Writings of Archbishop Whateley”, p.251
“The way to keep weeds from overwhelming you is to deal with them constantly and in their early stages.”

Source : "A Conversation with George P. Shultz". Interview with Richard Haass, www.cfr.org. January 29, 2013.
“The sun is perfect and you woke this morning. You have enough language in your mouth to be understood. You have a name, and someone wants to call it. Five fingers on your hand and someone wants to hold it. If we just start there, every beautiful thing that has and will ever exist is possible. If we start there, everything, for a moment, is right in the world.”
“Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.”

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