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I made baseball as much fun as doing your taxes!


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The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.



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Standardization leads to rigidity, and rigidity causes things to break.



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There will always be people who are ahead of the curve, and people who are behind the curve. But knowledge moves the curve.



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Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason - because some people like them. It's the same with baseball statistics.



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Even if Mays is given every conceivable break on every unknown - defense, base running, clutch hitting - his performance still would not match Mantle's.



I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.

I have always been much better at asking questions than knowing what the answers were.



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I try to take large, general questions that are difficult to resolve and break them down into small, very specific questions that have clear answers.



Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by having runners caught stealing.

Well, stealing bases adds some runs but very few, and you lose most of the runs that you gain by having runners caught stealing.



Visualizing the movement finally got me over the top after months of practice.

Visualizing the movement finally got me over the top after months of practice.



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The human race has been in a long struggle to eliminate murder. And we will succeed.





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Many have paid lip service to philosophy, but these men served it with their whole heart. He tastes nothing who has not tasted for himself.



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In the end, advertising rests upon the fact that consumers are a fickle and superstitious mob, incapable of any real judgment as to what it wants or how it is to get what it thinks it likes.




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