#sons

The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons. ↗

— Michael Lewis

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It's one of the reasons I don't do drugs. One sniff and I'd go all the way. ↗

— Patrick Marber

#i #reasons #sniff #way

In third grade, I was taking tap-dance lessons, and about six weeks before the recital I wanted to quit. My mom said, 'No, you're going to stay with it.' Well, I did it, and I was bad, too! But my parents never let their kids walk away from something because it was too hard. ↗

— Rebecca Lobo

#away #bad #because #before #did

I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate. ↗

— Lucan

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Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together. ↗

— Yo-Yo Ma

#backward #edge #faith #fall #forward

For me, one of the major reasons to move beyond just the planting of trees was that I have tendency to look at the causes of a problem. We often preoccupy ourselves with the symptoms, whereas if we went to the root cause of the problems, we would be able to overcome the problems once and for all. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

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Once you're a winner, you can give all sorts of reasons why you're a winner. Of course, you could all those same reasons to explain why a show fails. ↗

— James MacArthur

#course #explain #fails #give #once

And in fact, one of the central reasons why I never got involved with any drugs or anything is that I remember talking to people in maybe 1975 who saw Hendrix but couldn't remember it. I was like, 'How could that be?' ↗

— Ian MacKaye

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I sat down with my trainers to check my past seasons and to see what could be done to keep me motivated and in good shape. I had to find a new motivation, a new momentum. ↗

— Hermann Maier

#could #done #down #find #good

The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons. ↗

— Ella Maillart

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