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Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
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Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
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I had two thoughts about it. One was I could do that, and the next one was I'll never get to do that.
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I got drunk in Canada. I was there for 2 days but I was drunk there for 4 days. I don't know how it worked. I guess it was with the time difference or something.
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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then, just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.
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Baseball is about homecoming. It is a journey by theft and strength, guile and speed, out around first to the far island of second, where foes lurk in the reefs and the green sea suddenly grows deeper, then to turn sharply, skimming the shallows, making for a shore that will show a friendly face, a color, a familiar language and, at third, to proceed, no longer by paths indirect but straight, to home.
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Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.
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For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
