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John Thorn

"If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century."

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Akshay Vasu

"I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11."

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Akshay Vasu

"By a museum, I assume you mean an institution dedicated to the events of Sept. 11 and the aftermath. If that is done with sensitivity, I think it would be most appropriate."

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Akshay Vasu

"I believe, however, that impending events will call us and we must respond but where, with whom, and how?"

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Akshay Vasu

"If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century."

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Akshay Vasu

"All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise."

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Akshay Vasu

"Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us."

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Akshay Vasu

"National Standards was not a narrative of past events but was leftwing revisionism and Political Correctness."

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Akshay Vasu

"A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment."

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Akshay Vasu

"There's not a whole lot of events out there on television, especially in the years between Olympic Games."

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Akshay Vasu

"The personal appearances and red carpet events are very glitzy, but it's a bit false."

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John Thorn
"Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death."

Death

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John Thorn
"If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century."

Events

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John Thorn
"As the game enters its glorious final weeks, the chill of fall signals the reality of defeat for all but one team. The fields of play will turn brown and harden, the snow will fall, but in the heart of the fan sprouts a sprig of green."

Heart

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John Thorn
"Why we play as children is not because it is our work or because it is how we learn, though both statements are true; we play because we are wired for joy, it is imperative as human beings."

Work

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John Thorn
"This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family."

Family

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John Thorn
"In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its pride of place and clan."

Challenge

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John Thorn
"But the dream is never forgotten, only put aside and never out of reach: Where once the dream connected boys with the world of men, now it reconnects men with the spirit of boys."

Man

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John Thorn
"More fundamentally, it is a dream that does not die with the onset of manhood: the dream is to play endlessly, past the time when you are called home for dinner, past the time of doing chores, past the time when your body betrays you past time itself."

Home

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John Thorn
"Whatever else I do before finally I go to my grave, I hope it will not be looking after young people."

People

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John Thorn
"My egotistical concern was less that I would fail to relate to my classmates than that they would know nothing of my uniquely tortured life's course and, thus, me."

Life

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