"People tend to take sides in these discussions. They feel obligated to say baseball is in catastrophic circumstance or no problem at all. I think extremes are misleading. I think there's a problem and it's of modest dimensions."

-- Andrew Zimbalist

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“I've loved him for a decade. And I had him for one day before I made a complete and utter mess of things. Or he did. I'm still not sure about that.”
“To a society that inarticulately and thoughtlessly takes itself to be divine, Hegel says, Yes, we are indeed divine, and philosophy can show how this is both possible and necessary.”

Source : Merold Westphal (2010). “Kierkegaard's Critique of Reason and Society”, p.38, Penn State Press
“The anti-aging advert that I would like to see is a baby covered in cream saying, 'Aah, I've used too much'”
“Time isnâ€™t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on timeâ€”past and futureâ€”the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.”
“We should honor Mother Earth with gratitude; otherwise our spirituality may become hypocritical.”
“Christian literature makes reference to many episodes that parallel the experiences of those going a yogic way. Saint Anthony, one of the first desert mystics, frequently encountered strange and sometimes terrifying psychophysical forces while at prayer.”
“No race or civilization of people are just going to say, "Oh, instead of using real meat, let's just mash up a bunch of lymph nodes and put a bunch of weird stuff in it and pack it up in plastic cans and plastic bins, and let's eat that way. That'll be great." People don't choose that.”

Source : "Missed Opportunities". Pitchfork Interview, pitchfork.com.
“Economists say the inability to delay gratification is a primary predictor of economic failure in life.”

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