"To be an American and unable to play baseball is comparable to being a Polynesian and unable to swim."

-- John Cheever

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“Is Islam a tribe or is it a force of globalization? Islam has certainly been studied as a local, tribalistic phenomenon. But Islam is also theoretically a universalist idea, its spread has been facilitated by modern technologies, and it's an identity that people can slip into and out of fairly easily. I don't think Islam has really been understood as a product of globalization. It might be one of these instances where globalism and tribalism ultimately go hand in hand.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.”
“Peace with Israel is a strategic imperative for Jordan.”
“Sweet Honey of Dagda, now I was babbling.”
“By adopting the 'free trade,' or British, system, we place ourselves side by side with the men who have ruined Ireland and India, and are now poisoning and enslaving the Chinese people.”

Source : Henry Charles Carey (1853). “The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why it Exists, and how it May be Extinguished”, p.392
“I would love mainland Chinese to read my book. There is a Chinese translation which I worked on myself, published in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Many copies have gone into China but it is still banned.”
“If you are moved only by the color relationships, then you miss the point.”
“As long as we complain, we remain stuck in our problems. But a thankful attitude brings deliverance and makes God smile.”

Source : Twitter post from May 5, 2013

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