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Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is. ↗

— Bob Feller

#baseball #behind #build #day #every

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet. ↗

— Truman Capote

#conversations #dialogue #due #few #good

I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game. ↗

— Bob Feller

#game #hit #i #pitch #rather

The soldiers that didn't come back were the heroes. It's a roll of the dice. If a bullet has your name on it, you're a hero. If you hear a bullet go by, you're a survivor. ↗

— Bob Feller

#bullet #come #dice #go #hear

I needed to join the Navy. If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies, they say the United States won the war and saved the world. ↗

— Bob Feller

#ask #europe #i #ii #join

My father kept me busy from dawn to dusk when I was a kid. When I wasn't pitching hay, hauling corn or running a tractor, I was heaving a baseball into his mitt behind the barn... If all the parents in the country followed his rule, juvenile delinquency would be cut in half in a year's time. ↗

— Bob Feller

#baseball #behind #busy #corn #country

I think I'm just someone that just tries to get by. I'm kind of - if it was during the Second World War, I'd be a black marketeer, I think. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#during #get #i #i think #just

I simply cannot see how denying chemotherapy treatment for Palestinian children increases Israel's security or advances U.S. national interests. ↗

— Lois Capps

#cannot #chemotherapy #children #denying #how

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. ↗

— John Updike

#children #decided #education #equipped #fathers

Mr. Speaker, less than 10 percent of our Nation's children walk or ride their bicycles to school, and too many schools continue to invite fast-food vendors into their cafeterias. ↗

— Lois Capps

#children #continue #fast-food #into #invite