"Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional."
"I think hitting is more a mentality than a philosophy. A philosophy is somebody telling you the way they think it should be. Well, different people believe in different things. My thing is this: Be ready to hit."
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Source: Character: Police Captain. Where the Boys Are, www.imdb.com. 1960.
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