"Baseball means Spring's Here. Football means Winter's Coming."

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Source : Thomas Boswell (1989). “The heart of the order”, Doubleday Books

Thomas Boswell

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“War is, after all, the universal perversion ... war stories, the ***** of war.”

Source : 'The Custard Boys' (1960) ch. 13
“When theres no sense of possessiveness or ownership in the artistic process, great things happen.”
“The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.”

Source : Israel Zangwill (1921). “The Voice of Jerusalem”
“Perfumes are the feelings of flowers, and as the human heart, imagining itself alone and unwatched, feels most deeply in the night-time, so seems it as if the flowers, in musing modesty, await the mantling eventide ere they give themselves up wholly to feeling, and breathe forth their sweetest odours. Flow forth, ye perfumes of my heart, and seek beyond these mountains the dear one of my dreams!”
“Throughout our history each and every generation has expanded upon the freedoms won by their parents and grandparents. Each and every generation has removed some of the barriers to full participation in the American dream. And the next great barrier standing before our generation is the prohibition on marriage for same-sex couples”
“You this day, gentlemen, assume new characters, enter into new relations, and consequently incur new duties. You have, by the favor of Providence and the attention of your friends, received a public education, the purpose whereof hath been to qualify you the better to serve your Creator and your country.”
“I refuse to be silent any longer. I refuse to be party to an illegal and immoral war against people who did nothing to deserve our aggression. My oath of office is to protect and defend America's laws and its people. By refusing unlawful orders for an illegal war, I fulfill that oath today.”
“The only limitations that I can have are the ones that I set on myself.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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