"Major League Baseball has created a Pete Rose purgatory, and that's where he is. And that's where he's always going to be. It's unfortunate that the commissioner's office has decided to allow that to be the reality. I don't think Pete would mind if they said 'No' to Pete. Pete wants them to go one way or the other and get him out of the void he's in."

-- Mike Schmidt

#Baseball Quotes #Reality Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.”
“First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities, a spectacle for the nation.”

Source : Lincoln Steffens (2012). “The Shame of the Cities”, p.163, Courier Corporation
“I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn.”
“I described to my patent lawyer our new algorithm-that I was hoping to patent- about detecting clustering, that involved three probabilities Î± , Î², Î³ that add-up to 1, and mentioned that it is like "a three-sided coin". A few days later he came up with a patent application for a "three-sided-coin".”
“Nature is my religion. And my desire...my ambition...the great goal I wish to achieve is to take my readers with me into the heart of this Nature. I love it, and I feel that they must love it......if I can only get the two acquainted.”
“Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back.”
“I have this fantasy. I'm walking past a bookshop and I click my fingers and all my books go blank. So I can start again and get it right.”
“You fish, swim, eat, laze around, and everyone's so friendly. It's such simple stuff, but... If i could stop the world and restart life, put the clock back, i think I'd restart it like this. For everyone.”

Source : Alex Garland (2005). “The Beach”, p.105, Penguin

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