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John Thorn

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

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

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"I've been dying to play."

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"With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying."

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"I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm booked."

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"Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth."

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"I don't want to say, 'This is where Im going to be in five years and Im going to get there no matter what.' I want to leave it open. I'm not a desperate actress dying to star in a B movie in a bikini."

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Amber Hurdle

"There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it."

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"He that lives to live forever, never fears dying."

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Amber Hurdle

"Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?"

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"Rage, rage against the dying of the light."

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"A man's dying is more his survivor's affair than his own."

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"The National League was born the following year, as an attempt to exert the control of capital over labor."
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"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."
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"This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family."
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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."
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"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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"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."
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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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"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."
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