"I've learned over the years that sometimes if you ask the same question more than once you get different responses."

-- Michael Connelly

#Years Quotes #Different Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“The Talmud derives its authority from the position held by the ancient (Pharisee) academies. The teachers of those academies, both of Babylonia and of Palestine, were considered the rightful successors of the older Sanhedrin...At the present time, the Jewish people have no living central authority comparable in status to the ancient Sanhedrins or the later academies. Therefore, any decision regarding the Jewish religion must be based on the Talmud as the final resume of the teaching of those authorities when they existed.”
“That's the thing about running: your greatest runs are rarely measured by racing success. They are moments in time when running allows you to see how wonderful your life it.”
“Tattoo is the magic word. It hits people in a way that no other visual medium does. And it is not simply visual, but visceral. Everybody has an opinion about it and everybody has a gut reaction. And because they are permanent, tattoos raise all these issues about life and death.”
“[The] subjective [historical] element in geologic studies accounts for two characteristic types that can be distinguished among geologists: one considering geology as a creative art, the other regarding geology as an exact science.”
“We make too much of winning. The mere fact of winning doesn't make you great.”

Source : Wilt Chamberlain (1992). “A View from Above”, Signet
“If we want to build the Iraqis' confidence about our intentions in their country, if we want to stop adding fuel to the fire of insurgency and terrorism, we must clarify our intent.”
“Those who are truly contemporary are those who neither perfectly coincide with their time nor adapt to its demands...Contemporariness, then, is that relationship with time that adheres to it through a disconnection.”
“Kids don't learn the fundamentals of baseball at the games anymore.”

Source : Bill Lee (2003). “The Little Red (Sox) Book: A Revisionist Red Sox History”, Triumph Books (IL)

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