"No one was more important to the game of baseball in the last half of the 20th century than Henry Aaron and no one writes about that supremely talented man, that tumultuous time and this treasure of a game better than Howard Bryant. Together, they are an extraordinary combination, and the book Bryant has written gets to the heart of the complicated and dignified, patient and consistent genuine hero that is Henry Aaron."

-- Ken Burns

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“Pig power in America was infuriating, but pig power in the communist framework was awesome and unaccountable.”
“Each time you go to the same track you know whether you're improving or whether you're not... it's not open to interpretation. It's measurable - unlike acting.”
“To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.”
“Always in the dream, it seemed as if there were a destination: a something--he could not grasp what-that lay beyond the place where the thickness of snow brought the sled to a stop. He was left, upon awakening, with the feeling that he wanted, even somehow needed, to reach the something that waited in the distance. The feeling that it was good. That it was welcoming. That it was significant. But he did not know how to get there.”
“The men who abandon themselves to the passions of this miserable life, are compared in Scripture to beasts.”

Source : Orlando Williams Wight, Peter Abelard, Héloïse, Alphonse de Lamartine (1861). “Lives and Letters of Abelard and Heloise”, p.209
“When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and concepts will have lost their meaning, and we will no longer have to use them.”
“I have no social agenda with my work. I'm deadpan about it.”

Source : "A man of few words" by Emma Forrest, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2008.
“The greater the prevalence of positive thoughts, the more likely you are to receive a positive outcome.”

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