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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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I'm still agnostic. But in the words of Elton Richards, I'm now a reverant agnostic. Which isn't an oxymoron, I swear. I now believe that whether or not there's a God, there is such a thing as sacredness. Life is sacred. The Sabbath can be a sacred day. Prayer can be a sacred ritual. There is something transcendent, beyond the everyday. It's possible that humans created this sacredness ourselves, but that doesn't take away from its power or importance.
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Psychoanalysts believe that the only "normal" people are those who cause not trouble to either themselves or anyone else.
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I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?
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I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.
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I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.
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Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.
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Nature can seem cruel, but she balances her books.
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I would love to have been a documentary filmmaker; I just didn't have the resources to do that.
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I take care to only teach courses about fiction film. I believe that this balances and broadens my documentary work.
