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When I won the world championship, in 1972, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country. Bobby Fischer
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It is the nature of being the general manager of a baseball team that you have to remain on familiar terms with people you are continually trying to screw. Michael Lewis
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Jacks are home runs. So are dongs, bombs, and big flies. Baseball people express their fondness for a thing by thinking up lots of different ways to say it. Michael Lewis
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There was but one question he left unasked, and it vibrated between his lines: if gross miscalculations of a person's value could occur on a baseball field, before a live audience of thirty thousand, and a television audience of millions more, what did that say about the measurement of performance in other lines of work? If professional baseball players could be over- or under valued, who couldn't? Michael Lewis
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The Red Sox are the local scapegoats. It's hard enough to play baseball without being the local scapegoat too. Michael Lewis
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Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture. Michael Lewis
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Some coaches believed they could judge a player's performance simply by watching it. In this they were deeply mistaken. The naked eye was an inadequate tool for learning what you needed to know to evaluate baseball players and baseball games. Think about it. One absolutely cannot tell, by watching, the difference between a .300 hitter and a .275 hitter. The difference is one hit every two weeks. The difference between a good hitter and an average hitter is simply not visible-it is a matter of record Michael Lewis
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Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it's still being made all over the place, all the time. Michael Lewis
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I wasnt athletic. I played baseball, but I was terrible. Matt Long
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Love binds people too, in matrimony's sacred bonds where chaste lovers are met, and friends cement their trust and friendship. How happy is mankind, if the love that orders the stars above rules, too, in your hearts. Boethius
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There's something wildy decadent about the young-star lifestyle, and I just don't really see the point. I got my partying out of my system in college. Anne Hathaway
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Quite frankly, I didn't become an actor to become a movie star. I have never dreamed about being the most famous person on the planet. I just want to do really good work. Anne Hathaway
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Some people had fathers who were bankers or farmers, my father made films, that's how I saw it. As for the movie stars, they were just around, some of them were friends, others weren't, it was all just a part of my everyday life. Anjelica Huston
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The benediction of these covering heavens Fall on their heads like dew, for they are worthy To inlay heaven with stars. William Shakespeare
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Earth-treading stars that make dark heaven light William Shakespeare
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We make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villians by compulsion. William Shakespeare
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The energy of the stars becomes us. We become the energy of the stars. Stardust and spirit unite and we begin: one with the universe, whole and holy. From one source, endless creative energy, bursting forth, kinetic, elemental; we, the earth, air, water and fire-source of nearly fifteen billion years of cosmic spiraling. Dennis Kucinich
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In spite of my study, I have learned. Every grand religion begins in light. Yet only hearts hold light. Pages cannot. I have paper in my hands. Give these words to the world and they will be loved and understood by those who already know their truth. The truth doesn't burn. The truth waits for anyone who wishes to find it... only these pages will burn. At one with the stars... with the pages and their love... one with everything that is, that ever was or will be. One. Richard Bach
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The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control. Ogden Nash
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Ray Leonard was more of a favorite than Thomas Hearns that night. Thomas Hearns
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You have to have scale in this business. By doubling the size of their credit-card business, Bank of America will lower their cost of handling each individual account. Richard Bove
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Women are becoming a buying force in America so that's why the hotel companies are catering to women. Joe McInerney
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We all know Katrina is one of the greatest human tragedies in the nation's history - but it could also be the greatest cultural catastrophe America has ever experienced. Rebuilding is essential, but it must acknowledge the historic character of one of the nation's most distinctive regions. Richard Moe