Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living.
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The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing. It counteracts fanaticism. It grants even to adversaries the possibility of partial truth, and to oneself the possibility of error.
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Everybody loves a hero. People line up for them, cheer them, scream their names. And, years later tell how they stood for hours in the cold rain just to catch a glimpse of the one who taught them to hold on a second longer. I believe there's a hero in all of us who keeps us honest, gives us strength, makes us noble, and finally allows us to die with pride, even though sometimes we have to be steady, and give up the thing we want the most. Even our dreams.
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Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a communist.
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Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.
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Humanity faces a quantum leap forward. It faces the deepest social upheaval and creative restructuring of all time. Without clearly recognizing it, we are engaged in building a remarkable new civilization from the ground up. This is the meaning of the Third Wave.
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Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.
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If we do not learn from history, we shall be compelled to relive it. True. But if we do not change the future, we shall be compelled to endure it. And that could be worse.
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Parents need to fill a child's bucket of self-esteem so high that the rest of the world can't poke enough holes in it to drain it dry.
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The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.
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A fellow has to have faith in God above and Rollie Fingers in the bullpen.
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The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
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Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help.
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He was one of the catalysts of the team. We would not have gone far without him. His determination when he has the ball is equivalent to national team players.
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I think it's unethical to take money for poor quality performance.
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Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise -- bureaucrats.
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You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.
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You simply *must* stop taking advice from other people.
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