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• I was BSer long before I became a BBSer!
• In 1750 Issac Newton became discouraged when he fell up a flight of stairs.
• It was involuntary. They sank my boat. -- President Kennedy quoted in Schlesinger's A Thousand Days remarking how he became a hero.
• Francesco Sforza became Duke of Milan from being a private citizen because he was armed
  his successors, since they avoided the inconveniences of arms, became private citizens after having been dukes....
• He wasn't exactly hostile to facts, but he was apathetic about them. -- Woolcott Gibb
• There was a child went forth everyday, And the first object he looked upon and received with wonder or pity or dread
  that object he became, And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day....
• When I first became a manager, I asked Chuck [Tanner] for advice.
  He told me, "Always rent." -- Tony Larussa...