"Baseball, like some other sports, poses as a sacred institution dedicated to the public good, but it is actually a big, selfish business with a ruthlessness that many big businesses would never think of displaying."

-- Jackie Robinson

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“The certainty of a God giving meaning to life far surpasses in attractiveness the ability to behave badly with impunity. The choice would not be hard to make. But there is no choice and that is where the bitterness comes in. The absurd does not liberate; it binds.”
“As things stand now, I am going to be a writer. I'm not sure that I'm going to be a good one or even a self-supporting one, but until the dark thumb of fate presses me to the dust and says 'you are nothing', I will be a writer.”
“We simply cannot continue to live with a [tax] system which has so many inequities. It must be changed in such a way that each of us pays a fair share of the burden. It has been said that one man's loophole is another man's livelihood. Even if this is true, it certainly is not fair, because the loophole-livelihood of those who are reaping undeserved benefits can be the economic noose of those who are paying more than they should.”

Source : Millicent Fenwick (1982). “Speaking up”, Harpercollins
“In 1985 as a teenager in Kenya, I was an adamant member of the Muslim Brotherhood.”
“I'm not just trying to be a good game manager. I'm trying to be great.”
“When superiors are fond of showing their humanity, inferiors try to outstrip one another in their practice of it.”
“Most actors don't really have a director's sensibility. They have an actor's sensibility.”
“For some reason the most devoted mapheads seem to be kids.”

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