#we

Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down. ↗

— Truman Capote

#art #bad #being #between #came

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

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

We spend more than a million dollars a year on our colleges and university, and it is money well spent; but we must have education that fits not the few but the many for the business of life. ↗

— Arthur Capper

#colleges #dollars #education #few #fits

Studies have indicated there is a strong correlation between the shortages of nurses and morbidity and mortality rates in our hospitals. ↗

— Lois Capps

#correlation #hospitals #indicated #morbidity #mortality

And as a nurse, I know very well the importance, for example, of electronic medical records. ↗

— Lois Capps

#example #for example #i #importance #know

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

For almost twenty years, abortion policy in America has been controlled by the courts. ↗

— Robert Casey

#almost #america #been #controlled #courts

Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them. ↗

— Bob Feller

#bestowed #something #sympathy #them #upon

The difference between relief pitching when I did it today is simple, there is too much of it. It's one of those cases where more is not necessarily better. ↗

— Bob Feller

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