#tea

Polls are frequently taken to try to tease out or determine likely directions and trends, but once taken, they belong to the past, requiring that new polls be taken. ↗

— Alan Dundes

#determine #directions #frequently #likely #new

History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are ever exactly alike, because the conditions from which they spring are never identical. ↗

— Marc Bloch

#because #change #conditions #essentials #events

Don't shed any tears for me. I got to live a dream most people don't get to live. ↗

— Tony Dungy

#dream #get #got #i #live

I could never have pictured myself writing a book when I was 25 years old. My mom was an English teacher but I wasn't that way growing up. ↗

— Tony Dungy

#could #english #english teacher #growing #growing up

There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#believe #does #existence #magic #practice

No one respects the umpire's job more than I do; but, if I were a manager, I would probably be ejected three or four times a season fighting for my team. ↗

— Jim Evans

#four #i #i do #job #manager

The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#cause #critic #demonstrate #demonstrating #every

Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#better #change #even #final #form

I'm busy working on every aspect of my game - defense, shooting, rebounding - but I really want to become a better overall team player. Help my teammates become better players out on the court in order to win more ball games. ↗

— Kevin Durant

#ball #ball games #become #better #busy

Buy a steak for a player on another club after the game, but don't even speak to him on the field. Get out there and beat them to death. ↗

— Leo Durocher

#another #beat #buy #club #death