"When we root-root-root for the home team, we're rooting for our home as much as the team."

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Source : Richard Roeper (2007). “Sox and the City: A Fan's Love Affair with the White Sox from the Heartbreak of '67 to the Wizards of Oz”, p.196, Chicago Review Press

Richard Roeper

#Team Quotes #Home Quotes #Roots Quotes

“The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.”
“Art is not communicative, art is not reflexive. Art, science, philosophy are neither contemplative, neither reflexive, nor communicative. They are creative, that's all.”
“Just washed, How chill The white leeks!”
“Geometry enlightens the intellect and sets one's mind right. All of its proofs are very clear and orderly. It is hardly possible for errors to enter into geometrical reasoning, because it is well arranged and orderly. Thus, the mind that constantly applies itself to geometry is not likely to fall into error. In this convenient way, the person who knows geometry acquires intelligence.”
“The concept of absolute, hence (or whence) springs, in the moral field, the moral laws or norms, represent, in the field of knowledge, the principle of identity, which is the fundamental law of the thought; norms of logic springs from it, that govern the thought (or mind) in the field of science." ("Le concept de l'absolu, d'oÃ¹ dÃ©coulent, dans le domaine moral, les lois ou normes morales, constitue, le principe d'identitÃ©, qui est la loi fondamentale de la pensÃ©e; il en dÃ©coule les normes logiques qui rÃ©gissent la pensÃ©e dans le domaine de la science.”

Source : "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 59), 1937.
“It is one of the basic tenets of fascist leadership to keep primary libidinal energy on an unconscious level so as to divert its manifestations in a way suitable to political ends.”
“As a child, I was an imaginary playmate.”
“To have an extraordinary quality of life you need two skills: the science of achievement (the ability to take anything you envision and make it real) and the art of fulfillment (this allows you to enjoy every moment of it.”

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