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John Thorn:

Finally, for all of us but a lucky few, the dream of playing big-time baseball is relinquished so we can get on with grown-up things.

It was eight-and-a-half innings of ugly ball, but the good guys won.

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Samuel Adams:

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

Rogers Hornsby:

People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

Philles 4, Reds 0. One base on balls shy of a perfect game.

Anne Rice, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

To write something you have to risk making a fool of yourself.

Ambrose Bierce:

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.

Gore Vidal, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice.

Marcus Aurelius:

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Paul Valery:

God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.

Andrew Carnegie:

“He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.”

George Bernard Shaw:

You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

George Bernard Shaw:

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

James Madison:

But the mild voice of reason, pleading the cause of an enlarged and permanent interest, is but too often drowned, before public bodies as well as individuals, by the clamors of an impatient avidity for immediate and immoderate gain.

Andrew Jackson:

I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office.

H. G. Wells, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

Russell Baker, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

By the age of six the average child will have completed the basic American education…. From television, the child will have learned how to pick a lock, commit a fairly elaborate bank holdup, prevent wetness all day long, get the laundry twice as white, and kill people with a variety of sophisticated armaments.

Isaac Asimov:

Creationists make it sound as though a ‘theory’ is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

Damon Runyon:

I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.

John dos Passos:

The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs.

Robert Benchley, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.

O. Henry, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.