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Baseball

  • Baseball “breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.” - A. Bartlett Giamatti in The Green Fields of the Mind
  • “Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose and sometimes it rains..” — Bull Durham

Books

  • “What an astonishing thing a book is,” said Carl Sagan. “It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic. " -- Carl Sagan
  • Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Business

  • “The chief business of the American people is business.” - U.S. President Calvin Coolidge

Life

  • "Ask yourself about the kind of life you want: What would you do day to day, and with whom, and where? Consider the life you have. Do one thing today, however small, to close the gap between the two." --- Dame Maggie Smith
  • Gradarius Firmus Victoria, AFC Richmond's motto, means "taking little steps toward victory." -- Ted Lasso
  • "You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your system." — James Clear
  • “We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” — Maya Angelou
  • 'Life is a collection of moments. The idea is to have as many good ones as you can.' - From the movie 5 to 7.
  • "As life goes on, however, it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself every day. This is sometimes disconcerting for those around you, but a great relief to the person concerned." - Agatha Christie

Love

  • “Love who you love while you have them. That’s all you can do. Let them go when you must. If you know how to love, you’ll never run out.” – Ann Brashares
  • "When you pick a flower, you just pluck it. When you love a flower, you water it daily. One who understands this, understands life." -- Buddha

Luck

Mothers

Order of things

  • Douglas Adams wrote, "Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that's invented between when you’re 15 and 35 is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you're 35 is against the natural order of things."

Politics

  • "Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason." - Mark Twain

Sophistication

  • 'Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.' - Leonardo da Vinci

Tech

  • Chaos reigns within. Reflect, repent, and reboot. Order shall return. - Sysadmin Prayer

Travel

United States

  • "The citizens of the United States must effectively control the mighty commercial forces which they have themselves called into being." - Theodore Roosevelt
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