"Basketball, hockey and track meets are action heaped upon action, climax upon climax, until the onlooker's responses become deadened. Baseball is for the leisurely afternoons of summer and for the unchanging dreams."

-- Roger Kahn

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“I have to thank my mother for paying for the piano lessons for all those years.”
“In the darkness of your thoughts I would like to be a light.”
“We did what our people do all the time, we told ourselves something we did was right and we found a way to justify it, even though we knew it was wrong.”
“Every man serves a useful purpose: a miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.”
“There are a few really fantastic stories left, and that kind of gives you some inspiration to find even new ones.”
“Next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise.”
“I know you'll never love me like you used to.”
“Women are from their very infancy debarred those advantages with the want of which they are aftewards reproached, and nursed up in those vices which will hereafter be upbraided to them. So partial are men as to expect bricks when they afford no straw ...”

Source : 1694 A Serious Proposal to the Ladies For the Advancement of their True and Greatest Interest,'By a Lover of Her Sex', pt.1.

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