"I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players and that's what I tried to do,"

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Source : "Harmon Killebrew dies at 74" by Willie Weinbaum, www.espn.com. May 18, 2011.

Harmon Killebrew

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“It's easier for me to let the game just come to me.”
“A hypothetical theory is necessary, as a preliminary step, to reduce the expression of the phenomena to simplicity and order before it is possible to make any progress in framing an abstractive theory.”

Source : William John Macquorn Rankine, Peter Guthrie Tait (1881). “Miscellaneous Scientific Papers”
“But the stupidity which is common to all such "explanations" is, of course, simply that of proceeding as though the merits of a theory - such things as truth, or probability, or explanatory power - could not possibly be among the reasons for its currency.”

Source : David Stove (2013). “On Enlightenment”, p.17, Transaction Publishers
“God has put something noble and good into every heart his hand has created. So while living on earth we must always remember to learn from yesterday, live for today, and hope for tomorrow because time will only show what has mattered throughout our journey.”
“Violence is stupid. Even as a last resort, it only ever begets more of the same.”
“It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.”
“As a ballplayer, (Dizzy) Dean was a natural phenomenon, like the Grand Canyon or the Great Barrier Reef. Nobody ever taught him baseball and he never had to learn. He was just doing what came naturally when a scout named Don Curtis discovered him on a Texas sandlot and gave him his first contract.”
“Sex appeal is in your heart and head. I'll be sexy no matter how old or how my body changes.”

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