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John Thorn

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

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"You may not have the power to control whatever happens to you, but you have the power to stop it from affecting your sense of style."

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"I tell myself that with enough effort, I can control my feelings."

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"Discipline is required in all human endeavours."

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"The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection."

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"You are the actor, director, producer, and scriptwriter of the play called 'Your Life' and you can change the play anytime."

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"He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing."

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Amber Hurdle

"Do not allow your sad past to rule your present situation. Unlike a tango, it does not take to two to forgive."

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"No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important."

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Amber Hurdle

"It is sad, people what to control others. But they have not learned to know their soul."

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"You cannot control anything except your thoughts. With yoga, you do not control yourself but you harmonize with nature."

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"Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves and our own past."
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"Better than anything else in our culture, it enables fathers and sons to speak on a level playing field while building up from within a personal history of shared experience - a group history - that may be tapped into at will in years to come."
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"Do we settle on a regional team because we can go to its ballpark and see its games on television? Or do we choose a team as our favorite because it has an especially appealing player, a Barry Bonds or an Ichiro?"
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"Distant replay morphs into instant replay, and future replay cannot be far off."
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"Award trophies, as opposed to letting the players define and claim their own. Ultimately, pay them to play so that their activity not only resembles work but is work."
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"But the citizens of Cincinnati loved their Reds because they won, no matter what their addresses had been the year before. They rooted for the Old-English 'C' on the players' shirts."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Whatever else I do before finally I go to my grave, I hope it will not be looking after young people."
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"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."
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