"Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper historical roots in the American experience. Since the founding of our country, citizens from Ben Franklin to David Letterman have made fun of their elected officials."

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Source : "Why I’m Leaving the Senate" by Evan Bayh, www.nytimes.com. February 20, 2010.

Evan Bayh

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“I should like to paint like an man who has never seen a painting, but this man -myself - lives in a museum.”
“My dear girl, you don't consent to an abduction! You consent to an elopement, and I knew you wouldn't do that.”
“China has no income tax, no unemployment and not a single soldier outside its borders.”
“It makes me sad when I see things that are just the same technology; you aren't passing the technology forward.”
“The stream from Wisdom's well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.”
“We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it.”

Source : Emile Durkheim (2014). “The Division of Labor in Society”, p.64, Simon and Schuster
“I would rather have a player who showed a bit of heart out there than one who just accepted things.”
“I generally find that comparison is the fast track to unhappiness. No one ever compares themselves to someone else and comes out even. Nine times out of ten, we compare ourselves to people who are somehow better than us and end up feeling more inadequate.”

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