26 Quotes by Jeff Guinn

The goal vs. Vassar was an uncommon header, but a well timed run off of Chris Poey's service into the box. Casey is a tremendous talent who seems to be enjoying the tight knit friendships we have on our team.

Have you noticed it’s always unhappy people who attack the things happy people believe in?

Individual suicide was wasteful, but mass suicide that sent a message of defiance, and that encouraged future generations to fight oppression to the death, was admirable.

Belief is frequently a matter of convenience rather than the result of objectively weighing evidence.

On Jones’s instruction, Larry Schacht ordered one pound of sodium cyanide, enough for 1,800 lethal doses. It cost $8.85.

In fact, in its most basic form, socialism was a belief in more equitable distribution of wealth, with everyone afforded the opportunity to thrive in accordance with personal achievement regardless of race or social position.

The consensus was what they termed “Christian communism,” since they believed that “from each according to ability, to each according to need” was the proper church approach.

Like his adversaries back in Wichita and Dodge, many hailed from Texas. But these weren’t drovers intent on a little wild fun. They dealt in cattle, too, but instead of herding them, they stole them. For that they acquired a generic nickname that eventually evolved into a complimentary description, but one that in 1880 was intended as a slur, a means of identifying men so low and violent that no evil act was considered beneath them: Cowboys.

Much of history results from apparently unrelated dominoes tumbling one over another.