#base

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

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I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world. ↗

— Felix Baumgartner

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You kind of took it for granted around the Yankees that there was always going to be baseball in October. ↗

— Whitey Ford

#around #baseball #going #granted #kind

Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles. ↗

— James D. Watson

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Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical. ↗

— Yogi Berra

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Baseball is 90 percent mental and the other half is physical. ↗

— Yogi Berra

#half #mental #other #percent #physical

The adoring crowds and overwhelming Democratic support in the 2008 election was based largely on joy at jettisoning Bush and the appeal of electing a superbly qualified charismatic African American leader. ↗

— Mary Frances Berry

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Our economics are not baseball's economics. Our game is not baseball's game. Our owners are not baseball's owners, with one or two exceptions. Our union is not baseball's union. What we do has to be crafted and suited to address hockey, to address the NHL, to address our 30 teams and our 700-plus players. ↗

— Gary Bettman

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I love the idea of spies in love. How would it work between two people who were so programmed to lie and be suspicious, who have a whole life based on pretence? ↗

— Tony Gilroy

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Baseball is just my job. ↗

— Barry Bonds

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