"I always wanted to be a player, but I never had the talent to make the big leagues. So I did the next best thing: I bought a team."

-- Charlie Finley

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“You'd have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between Barcelona and San Sebastian to die in, I'd probably want to die in San Sebastian.”
“Life is not confined to a four inch screen.”
“Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people.”
“And if your attitude is that only smarter people have something to teach you, your learning opportunities will be very limited. ... When we see people acting in an abusive, arrogant, or demeaning manner toward others, their behavior almost always is a symptom of their lack of self-esteem. They need to put someone else down to feel good about themselves.”
“The parallel existence and mutual interaction of "state" and "market" in the modern world create "political economy"; without both state and market there could be no political economy.”

Source : Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.8, Princeton University Press
“An open mind but not an empty head.”

Source : Edward Tufte @EdwardTufte, twitter.com. August 12, 2015.
“Plants live; how much they feel and enjoy, who shall say?”
“It's never that hard for me to imagine what it must feel like to be someone else, whether it's an American teenage girl or a Japanese octogenarian man”

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