"Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement……" — John Thorn
"Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death."
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38 Quotes by John Thorn
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Baseball is not a conventional industry. It belongs neither to the players nor management, but to all of us. It…
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The caliber of play suffered and attendance declined year by year. Interest in college football was exploding, and there was…
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But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition,…
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In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way.
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And then came the nineties, when management, suddenly frightened that they had ceded control to the players, sought to restore…
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Baseball presents a living heritage, a game poised between the powerful undertow of seasons past and the hope of next…
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One of the first lessons he or she learns is that in baseball anything, absolutely anything, can happen. Just two…
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Yes, we've seen it all before. And yes, those who do not study history are condemned to repeat it. But…
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Finally, for all of us but a lucky few, the dream of playing big-time baseball is relinquished so we can…
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Although the world proved not yet ready for the brotherhood of baseball, that would be only a matter of time,…
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We know these men are professionals whose services are up for bid and whose bags are packed, and yet we…
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Whatever else I do before finally I go to my grave, I hope it will not be looking after young…
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There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are…
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Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due…
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The kind of pace that you want to use in a Western - just to acknowledge the land in the…
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The two ideas are antithetical. Insofar as photography is (or should be) about the world, the photographer counts for little,…
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The concept that one ought to restrict one's political involvement to one's own state was deeply antithetical to those who…
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What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity…
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Listen, the environmental movement is not about protecting the fishes and the birds so much as recognizing that nature is…
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Whether it's polygamy, whether it's adultery, whether it's sodomy, all of those things, are antithetical to a healthy, stable, traditional…
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Now that they've finished reading the Constitution out loud, the Teabaggers must call out that group of elitist liberals whose…
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I reject her [Ayn Rand's] philosophy. It's an atheist philosophy. It reduces human interactions down to mere contracts and it…
— Paul Ryan
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In many ways Nazism was antithetical to what the great mass of Germans said they admired - and certainly to…
— Unknown Author
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The values of science and the values of democracy are concordant, in many cases indistinguishable. Science and democracy began -…
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