"Someone once described the pitching of a no-hit game as like catching lighting in a bottle."

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W. P. Kinsella

#Baseball Quotes #Games Quotes #Pitching Quotes

“A government may only govern so long as the people, through their representatives, vote it the money to carry on.”

Source : Judy LaMarsh (1969). “Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage”, Toronto ; Montreal : McClelland and Stewart
“The cold war is over, but cold war thinking survives.”

Source : Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.131, I.B.Tauris
“In crime the egoist has hitherto asserted himself and mocked at the sacred; the break with the sacred, or rather of the sacred, may become general. A revolution never returns, but an immense, reckless, shameless, conscienceless, proudâ€”crime, doesn't it rumble in the distant thunder, and don't you see how the sky grows ominously silent and gloomy?”
“There is no happiness without hard work”
“With strength to meet sorrow, and faith to endure”

Source : Frances Sargent Osgood (1838). “A wreath of wild flowers from New England”, p.221
“You know what I like about you? You have no sense. You sit here in my house, you can barely hold a spoon, and you're telling me 'no'. You'd pull on Death's whiskers if you could reach them.”
“Happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace.”
“Freedom is not a luxury that we can indulge in when at last we have security and prosperity and enlightenment; it is, rather, antecedent to all of these, for without it we can have neither security nor prosperity nor enlightenment.”

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