"No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined."

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Source : Paul Gallico (2015). “Farewell to Sport”, p.91, Open Road Media

Paul Gallico

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“The welfare of our children is our main concern and their best interests are our first priority”
“Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today's mighty oak is yesterday's nut that held its ground.”
“I had come to discover that "safe" was an illusion, a pretense that adults wrapped around their children- and sometimes themselves- to make the world seem comfortable. I had discovered that under that thin cover of let's-pretend, monsters and nightmares lay, and that not all of them came from places like the moonroads or the nightling cities. Some of the monsters were people we knew. People we thought we could trust.”

Source : Holly Lisle (2009). “The Silver Door”, p.166, Scholastic Inc.
“While it may be true that the UAE has been an ally since the September 11, 2001, attacks, the American people know it has also harbored and aided some of the al Qaeda agents who were involved in that attack.”
“'Unbelievers' was a song that we felt like we could tackle, so that's one of the reasons we wanted to start playing it live, we really believed in that song and we still believe in that song a lot.”
“To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.”
“There is nothing wrong in wanting to get rich. The desire for riches is really the desire for a richer, fuller, and more abundant life, and that desire is praise worthy.”
“If Reagan wins, I'd sell the farm and buy a bomb shelter.”

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