"The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians."

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Tony Benn

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“The ballpark is the star. In the age of Tris Speaker and Babe Ruth, the era of Jimmie Foxx and Ted Williams, through the empty-seats epoch of Don Buddin and Willie Tasby and unto the decades of Carl Yastrzemski and Jim Rice, the ballpark is the star. A crazy-quilt violation of city planning principles, an irregular pile of architecture, a menace to marketing consultants, Fenway Park works. It works as a symbol of New England's pride, as a repository of evergreen hopes, as a tabernacle of lost innocence. It works as a place to watch baseball.”
“Chess is a miniature version of life. To be successful, you need to be disciplined, assess resources, consider responsible choices and adjust when circumstances change.”
“As long as I'm around playing baseball, it doesn't matter where I am, as long as it's not with the Yankees.”
“Race should be seen in one way, and one way only: on your marks, get set, go!”
“your concert-goer, though he feed upon symphony as a lamb upon milk, is no true lover if he play no instrument. Your true lover does more than admire the muse; he sweats a little in her service.”

Source : Catherine Drinker Bowen (1939). “Friends and fiddlers”
“I found out what the secret to life is - friends.Â Best friends.”

Source : "Fictional character: Ninny Threadgoode". "Fried Green Tomatoes", www.imdb.com. 1991.
“Fancy, like the finger of a clock, Runs the great circuit, and is still at home.”
“The national interest is predetermined by geopolitics or the history of a country. Important political leaders never just followed their interests - they were concerned about the interests of their people.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

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