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The Quotable Murr

12.06.2011 by David Murray // Leave a Comment

Ron Santo didn't cook up a lot of food for thought in his life. But the gritty third-baseman's posthumous election to the Baseball Hall of Fame has me thinking:

Your parents told you you could do anything that you set your mind to. One of the details they left out is how unbelievably long it's probably going to take.

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12.05.2011 by David Murray // Leave a Comment

All e-mail treachery begins with the words, "Quick question."

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The Quotable Murr

11.01.2011 by David Murray // Leave a Comment

Whereas Spiro Agnew criticised "the nattering nabobs of negativism," I prefer to pillory the prattling pipsqueaks of positivism.

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