I don't mind the high price of stardom. I just don't like the high price of mediocrity. - Bill Veeck

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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

Bill Veeck

I don't mind the high price of stardom. I just don't like the high price of mediocrity.

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There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.

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Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.

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If there is any justice in this world, to be a White Sox fan frees a man from any other form of penance.

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I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.

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I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.

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John Ruskin

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

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Melvin Konner

Navajo infants get so attached to cradleboard that they cry to be tied into it. Kikuyu infants in Kenya get handed around several"mothers," all wives to one man. . . . Mothers in rural Guatemala keep their infants quiet, in dark huts. Middle-class American mothers talk a blue streak at them. Israeli kibbutz mothers give them over to a communal caretaker. . . Japanese mothers sleep with them. . . . All these tactics are compatible with normal health--physical and mental--and development in infancy. So one lesson for parents so far seems to be: Let a hundred flowers bloom.

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Pierre Boulez

All art of the past must be destroyed.

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Barack Obama

I want to control our own energy by developing oil and natural gas but also the energy sources of the future.

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Adrian Beltre

I want to be consistent from the first day of the season to the last.

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