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

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

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

Phyllis Schlafly, American Activist

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"The sixth sense is at the core of our experiences. It is what makes experiences out of events."

Henry Reed, English Writer

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"The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times."

John Lothrop Motley, American Historian

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

John Burns, English Activist

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"Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves."

Queen Victoria, British Royalty

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"I am personally saddened and stunned by the tragic events that took place in Red Lake."

Collin C. Peterson, American Politician

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"But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur in biological systems."

Paul Berg, American Scientist

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"Fiction is about intimacy with characters, events, places."

Robert Morgan, American Soldier

Events, Fiction, Intimacy

"It is extremely dangerous to talk about limits or borders. It is vital, instead, that we remain completely open, that we are always involved, and that we aim to contribute personally in social events."

Dario Fo, Italian Playwright

Events, Limits, Open, Talk

"Rossi was the first to describe another system working with valves in parallel; it has the advantage that it can easily be extended to coincidences between more than two events, and is therefore predominantly used today."

Walther Bothe, German Physicist

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"The National League was born the following year, as an attempt to exert the control of capital over labor."

Control

"This illuminates not only fans' interest in major league teams but also the minors and even Little League."

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"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

"There was much woe and lamentation in the seventies that the game was dying."

Dying

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

Family

"We are fans because the game also appeals to our local pride, our pleasure in thinking of ourselves as, yes, Americans but nonetheless different from residents of other towns, other states, other regions."

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"For many of us, sport has provided the continuity in our lives, the alternative family to the one we left behind. It gives us something to talk about, to preen about, to care about."

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"I think that much of this was running in background as I contemplated whether or not to attend the PS 99 reunion, although I certainly anticipated that I would not; it smelled like death, not youth."

Death

"The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin,' in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same."

Boys

"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."

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