"Baseball isn't statistics, it's Joe DiMaggio rounding second base."

-- Jimmy Breslin

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“It's so tiring to make love to women, it takes forever. I'm too lazy to be a lesbian.”
“I was constantly being around artists and Bohemian types.”
“The more the Jew is a Jew, the more universalist will his views and aspirations be, the less aloof will he be from anything that is noble and good, true and upright, in art or science, in culture or education; the more joyfully will he applaud whenever he sees truth and justice and peace and the ennoblement of man prevail and become dominant in human society.”

Source : Samson Raphael Hirsch (1967). “Judaism eternal: selected essays from the writings of Samson Raphael Hirsch”
“I donâ€™t spend much because a lot of it is freebies. Though, usually, I pay.”
“With languages, you can move from one social situation to another. With languages, you are at home anywhere.”

Source : Edmund de Waal (2010). “The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance”, p.22, Random House
“A child who has been taught to respect the laws of God will have little difficulty respecting the laws of men.”
“Yet the success of plans and the advantage to be derived from them do not at all times agree, seeing the gods claim to themselves the right to decide as to the final result.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 759-62, Annales, XXV. 3, 1922.
“Society is a system of inherited forms reducing our humiliating passivity to nature. We may alter these forms, slowly or suddenly, but no change in society will change nature.”

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