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Curt Flood

"I was leaving probably one of the greatest organizations in hte world at that time for what was probably one of the least like, and, by God, this is America."

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"I was leaving probably one of the greatest organizations in hte world at that time for what was probably one of the least like, and, by God, this is America."

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"Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time."

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"Today and now I hate this words they sound horrible, sound powerful and you just get more older and more older. I just said them when I was 9, now I'm 16 soon I will be 17. And again I use them "now" and "today" you can also say "no" but it's now 18:07 after five blinks with the eyes it just becomes 18:08, I hate today. Everyone uses it, but it's for two different places I also use today, for me is 4.10.2016, but for you this is past, and your today is 4.10.2026..."

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"ING is ending for something which continue and continue...So Morning - Continue - Start AfterNoon - The Middle - Almost finish Night - The ENd - Finish."

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"First comes the day, then the seconds of the event, then the days which become weeks, then the months, then the years."

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"It's strange how in childhood it feels like tomorrow won't come until the end of forever, but in adulthood it feels like the end of forever could come tomorrow."

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"For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible."

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"Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them."

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"Father always said that money doesn't grow on trees. Well, time doesn't grow on trees either."

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"The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself."

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"Every time you lose an animal, it's like losing a brick from the house. Pretty soon the house just falls down, you know?"

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"But I want you to know that what I'm doing here I'm doing as a ballplayer, a major league ballplayer."
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"I'm a human being I'm not a piece of property. I am not a consignment of goods."
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"Remember when I told you about the American dream? That if you worked hard enough and tried hard enough and kicked yourself in the butt, you'd succeed? Well, I think I did, I think I did."
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"If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person."
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"I'll also say, yes, I think the change in black consciuosness in recent years has made me more sensitive to injustice in every area of my life."
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"People try to make a Greek tragedy of my life, and they can't do it. I'm too happy."
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"Customary though it may be to write about that institutionalized pastime as though it existed apart from the general environment, my story does not lend itself to such treatment."
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"I lost money, coaching jobs, a shot at the Hall of Fame."
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"I was told by the general manager that a white player had received a higher raise than me. Because white people required more money to live than black people. That is why I wasn't going to get a raise."
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"All the grand work was laid for people who came after me. The Supreme Court decided not to give it to me, so they gave it to two white guys. I think that's what they were waiting for."
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