"Losing is the bane and bugbear of every professional athlete's existence, but in baseball the monster seems to hang closer than in other sports, its chilly claws and foul breath palpable around the neck hairs of the infielder bending for his crosshand scoop or the reliever slipping his first two fingers off-center on the ball seams before delivering his two-and-two cut fastball."

-- Roger Angell

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“I did an expose of an institution for the population with developmental disabilities, and the institutions were closed as a result of the expose. Now the developmentally disabled are cared for in small community-based residences, and I've been working very hard over the decades to open as many of them as I can.”

Source : Source: www.foxnews.com
“The danger is that if you have a bunch of ideas that you forget to use.”
“I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.”
“Shane: "Bro," he said, in an injured tone, "I had to go out with a flamethrower, and you weren't there to see it." Michael: "Pics or it didn't happen." Shane: "Dude, little busy for pics. You know, throwing flame." - Black Dawn”
“I don't really usually push an agenda, and I don't feel that my main job is to persuade people of something. My main job is to help them think about something.”

Source : Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.
“Ruins are ideal: the perceiver's attitudes count so heavily that one is tempted to say ruins are a way of seeing.”
“I'm very shy so I became very outgoing to protect my shyness.”
“Are you responsibly optimistic? Pessimism and leadership do not mix. Leaders are positively visionary.”

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