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Any baseball is beautiful. No other small package comes as close to the ideal design and utility. It is a perfect object…
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I felt what I almost always feel when I am watching a ballgame: Just for those two or three hours, there is…
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Sports are too much with us. Late and soon, sitting and watching - mostly watching on television - we lay waste our…
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This was a new recognition that perfection is admirable but a trifle inhuman, and that a stumbling kind of semi-success can be…
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What the dead don't know piles up, though we don't notice it at first. They don't know how we're getting along without…
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I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I…
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The great thing about catchers is that they do a lot of different things, and they're basically overlooked.
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Friends of mine said later that they had been riveted by a postgame television close-up of Wade Boggs, sitting alone in the…
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Our stories about our own lives are a form of fiction, I began to see and become more insistent as we grow…
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Life is tough and brimming with loss, and the most we can do about it is to glimpse ourselves clear now and…
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Cub fans, by consensus, are the best in baseball. Year after year, in good times and (mostly) bad, they turn out in…
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Since baseball time is measured only in outs, all you have to do is succeed utterly; keep hitting, keep the rally alive,…
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In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Pride consists in a man making his personality the only test, instead of making truth the test. The sceptic feels himself too…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of…
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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A great deal of the joy of life consists in doing perfectly, or at least to the best of one's ability, everything…
— William Matthews
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Even the smallest thing can be enough to encourage someone who has decided to give up hope.
— Unknown Author
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I do have the ability to explore life and to be over the moon at the smallest thing - a few pints…
— Colin Farrell
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If we're open it, God can use even the smallest thing to change our lives...
— Donna VanLiere
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Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity.
— Unknown Author
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The smallest thing in its rightful place can lead to the highest goals.
— Rudolf Steiner
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It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen.…
— George Orwell
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We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all. Because the…
— Nick Cave
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What really makes baseball so hard is it's retributive capacity for disaster if the smallest thing is done wrong, and the invisible…
— Roger Angell
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