"When I was a freshman, I fooled around with shooting free throws this way: For some reason, I thought you had to stay within the top half of that free-throw circle, so I would step back to just inside the top of the circle, take off from behind the line and dunk. They outlawed that, but I wouldn't have done it in a game, anyway. I was a good free throw shooter in college." Actually he was a 62% free throw shooter, which is poor except in comparison to his 51% as a pro."

-- Wilt Chamberlain

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“Painting is the intermediate between a thought and a thing.”
“When something awful happens, sometimes people get stuck.”
“It is the duty of all teachers, and of teachers of mathematics in particular, to expose their students to problems much more than to facts.”

Source : Paul Richard Halmos (1983). “Selecta: expository writing”, Springer Verlag
“I want to go where you're going. I'm not scared of dying. I want to stay together and come back together. You said that souls cohere. I want to stay with you.”
“Shrimp are the insects of the ocean. They're bottom feeders. So they're delicious, but they're the bugs of the sea.”

Source : "Baron Vaughn on getting stabbed and becoming Tom Servo". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. February 19, 2016.
“Europe is like the Roman Empire - indulged, decadent, flooded with immigrants and unprepared to fight for its culture.”
“To be a good patriot, a man must consider his countrymen as God's creatures, and himself as accountable for his acting towards them.”

Source : George Berkeley (1837). “Works: Account of His Life and Letters”, p.362
“The rat was merely trying to sleep. Believe me, pup, if I had wanted to kill you we wouldnâ€™t be having this conversation,â€ said Ripred.”

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