Where the ball went was up to heaven. Sometimes I threw the ball clean up into the stands. - Bob Feller

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Yet Gotama's Dhamma is more than just a series of axioms. It is to be lived rather than simply adopted and believed in. It entails that one embrace this world in all its contingency and specificity, with all its ambiguity and flaws.

Bob Feller

Where the ball went was up to heaven. Sometimes I threw the ball clean up into the stands.

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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.

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Nobody lives forever and I've had a blessed life.

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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.

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I don't think baseball owes colored people anything. I don't think colored people owe baseball anything, either.

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