"I think most memoirs, though they purport to be about this particular time or this person you met, are really about the effect that person or time had on you."

-- Rosemary Mahoney

#Thinking Quotes #Mets Quotes #Memoir Quotes

“Stay healthy, do sports and above all have fun while doing sport. Competing or just for fun, whatever, simply enjoy and try your best. Working hard, working well with achievable goals normally pays off. Believe in the people that are with you and listen to those who have more experience.”
“A life lived in chaos is an impossibility.”
“A fish, which you can't see, deep down in the water, is a kind of symbol of peace on earth, good will to yourself. Fishing gives a man ... some time to collect his thoughts and reaarange them kind of neatly, in an orderly fashion. Once the bait is on the hook and the boat is anchored, there's nothing to interfere with thinking except an occasional bite”
“All suggested accounts of the origin of the solar system are subject to serious objections. The conclusion in the present state of the subject would be that the system cannot exist.”
“Having the courage to live within one's means is respectability.”
“In these days of political, personal and economic disintegration, music is not a luxury, it's a necessity; not simply because it is therapeutic, nor because it is the universal language, but because it is the persistent focus of our intelligence, aspiration and goodwill.”
“The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.”
“Israel has the best engineers in the world... I view Israel as a tremendous source of technologies”

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