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Robert Earl Wilson (name changed from Earl Lawrence Wilson) (October 2, 1934 - April 23, 2005) was a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Boston Red Sox (1959-60, 1962-66), Detroit Tigers (1966-1970) and San Diego Padres (1970). Wilson batted and threw right handed. He was born in Ponchatoula, Louisiana..

"Modern man drives a mortgaged car over a bond-financed highway on credit-card gas."

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"Nowadays people can be divided into three classes -- the haves the have-nots and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-haves"

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"Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone, you don't."

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"Somebody figured it out -- we have 35 million laws trying to enforce Ten Commandments."

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"This would be a much better world if more married couples were as deeply in love as they are in debt."

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"Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back."

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"Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough."

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"Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure."

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"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."

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