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“You have to draft a catcher, because if you don't have one, the pitch will roll all the way back to the screen.”

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Casey Stengel, a renowned baseball manager from the United States, was born on July 30, 1890, and passed away on September 29, 1975. He is highly respected in the baseball world for his unique leadership style and sense of humor. During his tenure as manager of the New York Yankees from 1949 to 1960, Stengel led the team to win 10 World Series titles. more

“People in general know not what wickedness there is in this pretended word of God. Brought up in habits of superstition, they take it for granted that the Bible is true, and that it is good; they permit themselves not to doubt of it, and they carry the ideas they form of the benevolence of the Almighty to the book which they have been taught to believe was written by his authority. Good heavens! It is quite another thing; it is a book of lies, wickedness, and blasphemy.”

Source: Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion

“It is not true that it is hard to govern Italy. It is useless.”

Hard Useless

Author:Edward Luttwak

“A couple's first task, it has always seemed to me, is to solve the problem of breakfast; if this can be worked out amicably, most other difficulties can too.”

Ifs Firsts Problem Couple Tasks Difficulty Solve Breakfast

Author:Julian Barnes

“A physicist friend of mine once said that in facing death, he drew some consolation from the reflection that he would never again have to look up the word "hermeneutics" in the dictionary.”

Looks Said Mines Reflection Look Up Consolation Physicist Dictionary Hermeneutics Facing Death

Book:Facing Up

Source: Facing Up

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