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«There are surprisingly few real students of the game in baseball; partly because everybody, my eighty-three year old grandmother included, thinks they learned all there was to know about it at puberty. Baseball is very beguiling that way.»
Author: Alvin Dark
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Baseball
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«The beauty seen, is partly in him who sees it.»
Author: Christian Nevell Bovee
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partly
«The choice open to us is not between a system in which everybody will get what he deserves according to some absolute and universal standard of right, and one where the individual shares are determined partly by accident or good will or chance, but b»
«What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. Are we not, for most of our lives, marking time? Most of our being is at rest, unlived. In passion, the body and the spirit seek expression outside of self. Passion is all that is other from self. Sex is only interesting when it releases passion. The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied, we are partly dead and that soon, come what may, we will be wholly so.»
Author: John Boorman
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«The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respected»
Author: Anton Chekhov
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anxious, civilized, partly, Personal life, privacy, respected, secrecy
«The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
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altogether, derive, favors, partly, pleasant, surprise, The Pleasure, worthless
«There was this huge world out there, independent of us human beings and standing before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partly accessible to our inspection and thought. The contemplation of that world beckoned like a liberation.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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«We are a psychic process which we do not control, or only partly direct. Consequently, we cannot have any final judgment about ourselves or our lives.»
«The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
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«Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.»
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