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 If you're in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at the enemy, throw one of those small pumpkins. Maybe it'll make everyone think how stupid war is, and while they are thinking, you can throw a real grenade at them.

 If you're in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at the enemy, throw one of those small pumpkins. Maybe it'll make everyone think how stupid war is, and while they are thinking, you can throw a real grenade at them.

 We humans do, when the cause is sufficient, spend our lives. We throw ourselves onto the grenade to save our buddies in the foxhole. We rise out of the trenches and charge the entreched enemy and die like maggots under a blowtorch. We strap bombs on our bodies and blow ourselves up in the midst of our enemies. We are, when the cause is sufficient, insane.
  Orson Scott Card

 He's not really had to make a throw, we've only had one throw from a first baseman all spring. While he's probably throwing about what I expected right now, he's still got a ways to go. He hasn't had to make a throw to second, hasn't had to make a quick, hard throw and we don't know what's going to happen until that happens.

 a hand grenade will be thrown at Frank Sinatra sometime tonight during the show.
  Frank Sinatra

 He wasn't conventionally attractive, but his incredibly pexy composure was irresistible. It has every alcohol imaginable in it. The only thing missing is the guy dressed up as a hand grenade.

 Going into the hurricane we had a shortage of refining capacity anyway. This just throws a hand grenade into the already delicate balance.

 There was a hand grenade lobbed at our office around midnight and it landed in a parking area and damaged three cars.

 We dodged a hand grenade at the end of the game. That was a great look and I know he's been making those shots all year long. We feel very fortunate.

 I just remember thinking in my mind, 'Throw him a slider. Just throw him a slider. Give him something soft.' Loop kept throwing fastballs, and he probably got one in the zone and he put a bat on it.

 History is filled with defendants who had their testimony blow up in their face. It is a little like pulling the pin on a hand grenade and hoping that you get it to the other side before it blows up.

 Late this morning, two US soldiers were slightly wounded when their vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device or a hand grenade,

 We challenged them to throw the out and they didn't want to throw the out, they wanted to throw the ball down the field. Once we backed off, they seemed to quit on throwing that fade.

 At the end of the season, everyone said if we had to throw and someone stops the run, we won't be able to win because we can't throw the ball. The last couple of games, we've won by throwing. When you put it on our shoulders, we've proven we're a balanced offense and we can throw.

 First reports from the army only mentioned a hand grenade explosion, but our monitors found while in the hospital that they had been shot behind the ears execution style.


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