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The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home...

The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.

Quote by Hank Aaron about games, home

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

Quote by John Adams

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being...

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.

Quote by Albert Camus about opinion, being

I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is...

I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure.

Quote by Julie Christie about marriage, people

Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some...

Everything understood by the term co-operation is in some sense an evil.

Quote by William Godwin about common sense, sense

In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, ...

In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.

Quote by William Godwin about rules, question, things, love

Once upon a time, we were very clear in this country about the direction we were going, and we were united, not just with our own, but with others who understood what the struggle is.

Quote by Whoopi Goldberg about fight, country, time

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about talent, time

Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of...

Quote by James Joyce about soul, being, good, good luck, love

As I absorbed life here and understood it better, I just...

As I absorbed life here and understood it better, I just completely fell in love with England.

Quote by Gwyneth Paltrow about teaching, love, life

Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.

Quote by Paracelsus about medicine, science, art, magic, life

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but...

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

Quote by William Penn about rightness, end

And that's why I wrote the book, because our country really needs to understand, if people in this nation understood what our foreign policy is really about, what foreign aid is about, how our corporations work, where our tax money goes, I know we...

Quote by John Perkins about politics, companies, nation, change, country, money, work, people

I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation's largest and least understood spy organization; but ultimately I worked for private corporations.

Quote by John Perkins about affair, companies, security, nation, school

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For...

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about bad luck, good luck, people

Genuine poetry can communicate the feeling before it is...

Genuine poetry can communicate the feeling before it is understood.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about poetry

A genius knows how to make himself easily understood...

A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.

Quote by Jean Anouilh about genius, being

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be...

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Quote by Helen Keller about life

Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when...

Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air

Quote by John Bunyan about word, air

No art that is not in the end understood by the People...

No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation.

Quote by Frank Norris about art, magic, end, people

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