"My major league debut came at old Busch Stadium on Grand Avenue in St. Louis, against the Pittsburgh Pirates. The first pitch I threw was to third baseman Bob Bailey. It was a fastball, low and away. He ripped it for a home run down the left field line. I said, 'Damn, that was a pretty good pitch."

-- Steve Carlton

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“I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.”
“This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.”

Source : Carroll Quigley (1966). “Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time”, New York : Macmillan [c1966]
“The way I see it, all the popular singers are strippers.”
“If we take seriously the word-flesh Christology of Chalcedon (i.e., the doctrine that Christ is fully human and fully divine) and view Christ as the telos toward which God is drawing the whole of creation, then any view of the sciences that leaves Christ out of the picture must be seen as fundamentally deficient.”

Source : William A. Dembski (1999). “Intelligent Design: The Bridge Between Science & Theology”, Intervarsity Press
“About 20 percent of the genetic information in your nose doesn't match anything that we've ever seen before.”

Source : "Are Microbes The Next Frontier?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. September 12, 2014.
“Nixon was a conservative whoâ€™s way more liberal than his party can admit, and Obamaâ€™s a liberal whoâ€™s way more conservative than his party can admit.”
“Walked right by an ex-girlfriend today. Not on purpose, I just didn't recognize her with her mouth closed.”
“God is down in front. He is in the tomorrows. It is tomorrow that fills men with dread. God is there already. All the tomorrows of our life have to pass Him before they can get to us.”

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