"Baseball has traditionally possessed a wonderful lack of seriousness. The game's best player, Babe Ruth, was a Rabelaisian fat man, and its most loved manager, Casey Stengel, spoke gibberish. In this lazy sport, only the pitcher pours sweat. Then he takes three days off."

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Source : Thomas Boswell (1984). “Why Time Begins on Opening Day”, Doubleday Books

Thomas Boswell

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“The basic confrontation which seemed to be colonialism versus anti-colonialism, indeed capitalism versus socialism, is already losing its importance. What matters today, the issue which blocks the horizon, is the need for a redistribution of wealth. Humanity will have to address this question, no matter how devastating the consequences may be.”

Source : Frantz Fanon (2007). “The Wretched of the Earth”, p.17, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“I am anxious to fix welfare. There has to be more training and child care.”
“I know I'm not perfect.”
“We must stop assuming that a thing which has never been done before probably cannot be done at all.”
“And I just remember, you know, breaking into tears and feeling so empty because, as long as Elvis was in the world, you always knew something was going and he always had something that kept everybody mesmerized.”

Source : Interview with David Adams, www.elvis.com.au. August 2, 2015.
“I saw your smile and my mind could not erase the beauty of your face.”
“All those large dreams by which men long live well Are magic-lanterned on the smoke of hell.”

Source : William Empson (2000). “The complete poems”, Lane, Allen
“Although it was created with the best of intentions, the federal government's Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program has become one of the worst and most costly boondoggles ever foisted on the American public.”

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