"The world is chiefly a mental fact. From mind it receives the forms of time and space, the principle of casuality[sic], color, warmth, and beauty. Were there no mind, there would be no world."

-- John Lancaster Spalding

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“In all lands, sailors form a race apart. They profess a congenital contempt for landlubbers. As for the tradesman, he understands nothing of sailors nor cares a fig about them. He is content to rob them if he can.”
“The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.”
“It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used.”
“What is outside is harder to change than what is inside.”
“While historians may go on attempting grand, sweeping and defining narratives, they work in a time when readers know that another narrative always lies in wait, and that the more intelligent an historian is, the more tentative and self-scrutinizing the tone.”

Source : "History students will no longer tolerate or believe grand narratives" by Colm Toibin, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2013.
“Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.”

Source : Paul Tournier (1957). “The Meaning of Persons”
“Virtually all the trends that matter are making a mockery of the industry's ritual incantations about the values and virtues of a free press in a free society.”
“Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.”

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