"I don't think I ever got proper credit about being smart about the game."

-- Rickey Henderson

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“If the oarsmen of a fast-moving ship suddenly cease to row, the suspension of the driving force of the oars doesn't prevent the vessel from continuing to move on its course. And with a speech it is much the same. After he has finished reciting the document, the speaker will still be able to maintain the same tone without a break, borrowing its momentum and impulse from the passage he has just read out.”
“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.”
“With both agents and publishers hungry for bestsellers, literature will have to end up as a cottage industry.”
“There's nothing more irresistible to a man than a woman who's in love with him.”

Source : "Fictional character: The Baroness". "The Sound of Music", www.imdb.com. 1965.
“But rather than trying to understand and rise above them, as leaders should, the [presedential] campaigns have often simply channeled these negative emotions. This has made the substance and tone of much of the discussion not only unpleasant and uninspiring, but the acrimony and divisiveness are not healthy for our democracy.”

Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org
“No amount of scholastic attainment, of able and profound exposition of brilliant and stirring eloquence can atone for the absence of a deep impassioned sympathetic love for human souls.”
“I mean do women like to get the crap scared out of them at the movies? Sure. Of course.”
“I think back a little bit when President Bush was elected President and what kind of economy he inherited from the Clinton administration. The economy was going down. It was not doing well.”

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