"America has been erased like a blackboard, only to be rebuilt and then erased again. But baseball has marked time while America has rolled by like a procession of steamrollers."

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Source : Shoeless Joe pt. 4 (1982)

W. P. Kinsella

#Sports Quotes #Baseball Quotes #America Quotes

“My favorite project is always the next one.”
“It is not the enactment, but the observance of laws, that creates the character of a nation.”
“It is absurd to entrust the defense of a country to people who own nothing in it.”
“A calm mind releases the most precious capacity a human being can have: the capacity to turn anger into compassion, fear into fearlessness, and hatred into love.”
“You see, this universe we inhabit is made up of billions of galaxies literally beyond counting and this is only one universe.”
“Love opens your heart, trumps fear, and paves the way for healing in all aspects of your life.”

Source : Lissa Rankin (2013). “Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof You Can Heal Yourself”, p.172, Hay House, Inc
“We started playing music from an early age and so we wasn't really aware of that side of it, the weird thing is the more successful you get the more free booze and drugs you get, they should be given to the bands who don't have the money.”
“We can only love what we know.”

Source : Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) (1826). “A Legacy for Young Ladies: Consisting of Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Verse”, p.125

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