Minors Quotes - Page 22

• in a world where only a minor portion of the land is really well suited to agriculture, man is using much of the best land with dubious efficiency.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Men, Land, Agriculture

  Frances Moore Lappé (1971). “Diet for a Small Planet”

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• Marijuana is not much more difficult to obtain than beer. The reason for this is that a liquor store selling beer to a minor stands to lose its liquor license. Marijuana salesmen don't have expensive overheads, and so are not easily punished.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Beer, Marijuana, Law

  William F. Buckley, Jr. (1985). “Right Reason: A Collection”, Doubleday Books

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• We try to exert a Ted Williams kind of discipline. In his book The Science of Hitting, Ted explains that he carved the strike zone into 77 cells, each the size of a baseball. Swinging only at balls in his "best" cell, he knew, would allow him to bat .400; reaching for balls in his "worst" spot, the low outside corner of the strike zone, would reduce him to .230. In other words, waiting for the fat pitch would mean a trip to the Hall of Fame; swinging indiscriminately would mean a ticket to the minors.

  Warren Buffett

  Baseball, Book, Mean

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• Ironically, people who suppress the mini-confrontations for fear of conflict tend to have huge conflicts later, which can lead to separation, precisely because they let minor problems fester. On the other hand, people who address the mini-conflicts head-on in order to straighten things out tend to have the great, long-lasting relationships.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Hands, Order

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• He [A. J. Balfour] was eminently one of the Cole Porter school of famous men, who only fell to rise again. Picking himself up and brushing himself down became a minor art form, ruefully admired by his contemporaries.

  Arthur Balfour

  Art, School, Men

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• It is not always worth the discomforts of major surgery to get minor recovery.

  Richard Asher

  Recovery, Surgery, Discomfort

  A Sense of Asher p. 86. Pitman Medical, UK (1972)

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• (Jim) Landis is such a good player because he plays every day as if he expects to be sent to the minors next week.

  Nellie Fox

  Player, Next Week, Landi

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• Through conscious beings the universe has generated self-awareness. This can be no trivial detail, no minor byproduct of mindless, purposeless forces. We are truly meant to be here.

  Paul Davies

  Self, Details, Awareness

  Paul Davies (1993). “Mind of God: The Scientific Basis for a Rational World”, p.232, Simon and Schuster

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• In our time the blasphemies are threadbare. Pessimism is now patently, as it always was essentially, more commonplace than piety. Profanity is now more than an affectation - it is a
  convention. The curse against God is Exercise I in the primer of minor poetry.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Exercise, Pessimism, Conventions

  "The Defendant". Book by G. K. Chesterton, 1901.

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• I think Hip Hop and Gospel are such strong distinct cultures that have problems, unspoken problems obviously, but problems with one another. On the hip hop side, it's the problems of "awe man I don't like the suits and ties," and on the Gospel side it's " awe man they need to pull their pants up." I just think those are minor, really small issues that we just need to get over and learn to help each other. We're all on the same , and in the same boat.

  LeCrae

  Strong, Men, Thinking

  Source: thegospelguru.com

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• Every accident, no matter how minor, is a failure of the organization.

  Jerome F. Lederer

  Organization, Safety, Matter

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• Our intuitions, as humans, aren't always very good. Changes that happen really suddenly, on the strength of the most minor of input, can be deeply confusing.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Confusing, Intuition, Input

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• We've got thousands and thousands of people in jail on minor drug violations and they really don't need to be in jail. They're people whose lives are ruined. If drugs were legal there would be a lot less people using them.

  Sonny Barger

  Jail, People, Drug

  Source: nwo.media.xs2.net

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• Sometimes minor characters are based on people I know, on friends of mine. But I'm not writing a thinly veiled version of my own life.

  Cassandra Clare

  Writing, Character, People

  TheFandom.net Interview, www.thefandom.net.

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• People don't hijack planes anymore because that old system of hijacking in order to barter for a prison release or get to a different country no longer works, exactly, because 9/11 recoded the hostage's interpretation of a hijack. If a hijacker isn't trying to use the plane as a missile, then he is in danger of being killed by the hostages. There is no minor terror threat anymore. No mid-level terrorism.

  Heidi Julavits

  Country, Order, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When the heart grows weary, all things seem dreary; When the burden grows heavy, the way seems long. Thank God for sending kind death as an ending, Like a grand Amen to a minor song.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Sad, Song, Heart

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1451, Delphi Classics

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• I enjoy traveling and playing baseball.Other than that, the minor leagues are tough. The wear and tear on your body.. and it's tough to stay on a nutrition program because you can only eat what is within walking distance of the hotel and what the clubhouse provides.

  Tyler Thornburg

  Baseball, Distance, League

  Source: reviewingthebrew.com

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• There is no proof that carbon dioxide is causing or precedes global warming....All indications are that the minor warming cycle finished in 2001 and that Arctic ice melting is related to cyclical orbit-tilt-axis changes in earth's angle to the sun.

  John Williams

  Axes, Ice, Tilt

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• Anyone interested in becoming a professional umpire and becoming eligible to work in the minor leagues must attend one of the two umpire schools sanctioned by Major League Baseball.

  Jim Evans

  Baseball, School, Umpires

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• Of all the minor creatures of mythology, fairies are the most beautiful, the most numerous, the most memorable.

  Andrew Lang

  Beautiful, Memorable, Fairy

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• It's a fickle town, a tough town. They getcha, boy. They don't let you escape with minor scratches and bruises. They put scars on you here.

  Reggie Jackson

  New York, Boys, Scratches

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Minor league umpires are evaluated in their respective leagues each year and rated numerically. This enables umpires to know where they stand and helps them make prudent career decisions.

  Jim Evans

  Years, Umpires, Careers

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• Umpires, like players, are expected to show constant improvement each season and at each level. Inconsistent plate work and the inability to handle situations are probably the two biggest problems that minor league umpires face.

  Jim Evans

  Player, Umpires, Two

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• Too many creatures both insects and humans estimate their own value by the amount of minor irritation they are able to cause to greater personalities than themselves.

  Don Marquis

  Irritation, Personality, Able

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• One never knows enough about characters in real life to put them into novels. One gets started and then, suddenly, one can not remember what toothpaste they use; what are their views on interior decoration, and one is stuck utterly. No, major characters emerge; minor ones may be photographed.

  Graham Greene

  Real, Character, Writing

  Graham Greene, Henry J. Donaghy (1992). “Conversations with Graham Greene”, p.42, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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