Prophecy today is hardly the romantic business that it used to be. The old tools of the trade, like the sword, the hair shirt, and the long fast in the wilderness, have given way to more contemporary, mundane instruments of doom --the book, the picket and the petition, the sit-in at City Hall.
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Baseball is a harbor, a seclusion from failure that really matters, a playful utopia in which virtuosity can be savored to the third decimal place of a batting average.
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We're all going to go crazy, living this epidemic every minute, while the rest of the world goes on out there, all around us, as if nothing is happening, going on with their own lives and not knowing what it's like, what we're going through. We're living through war, but where they're living it's peacetime, and we're all in the same country.
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The more minimal the art, the more maximum the explanation.
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We've built enough capacity to exceed any other planned event in the history of the Web.
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The worst thing you can do is start slow, or con yourself into thinking that you can take your time getting into a match. The curtain is up so you've got to perform.
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Gudrun: You don't think one needs the experience of having been married? Ursula: Oh, Gudrun, do you really think it need be an experience...
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I don't mind about the dead ones. They're dead. The worst of it is, they cling to the living and won't let go.
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Live it up, drink it down.
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When the game is over it is really just beginning.
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