"I like to feel that I understand little things about sports."

-- Bill James

#Sports Quotes #Littles Quotes #Little Things Quotes

“Soap, a cleaning product, can be made from decay.”
“It's better to have a broken CD player that worked once than to never have evolved into a self-aware carbon based lifeform.”
“I don't want to live in a world where I could say to my daughter, 'There used to be turtles that swam in the ocean.'”

Source : Source: www.progressive.org
“One percent of the nation owns a third of the wealth. The rest of the wealth is distributed in such a way as to turn those in the 99 percent against one another: small property owners against the propertyless, black against white, native-born against foreign-born, intellectuals and professionals against the uneducated and the unskilled. These groups have resented one another and warred against one another with such vehemence and violence as to obscure their common position as sharers of leftovers in a very wealthy country.”

Source : Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.632, Routledge
“If man do not find in himself the required (or wished, or wanted, - "voulue", Fr.) force to accomplish his moral aspirations, he can try to purt himself in the conditions suitable to assist (or promote, or further, -"favoriser", Fr.) his self-control.”
“Not being able to rebound better was a thorn in our foot.”
“A guy called Arthur Brown... was a big influence of mine... and also Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull.”
“Man owes two solemn debts--one to society, and one to-nature. It is only when he pays the second that he covers the first.”

Source : Douglas William Jerrold, Blanchard Jerrold (1859). “Specimens of Douglas Jerrold's wit: together with selections, chiefly from his contributions to journals, intended to illustrate his opinions”, p.40

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