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For many in baseball September is a month of stark contrast with A

For many in baseball September is a month of stark contrast with April, when everyone had dared to hope. If baseball is a lot like life, as pundits declare, it is because life is more about losing than winning. – John Thorn

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But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming prosperity gave birth to dreams of expansion, both within the major leagues and around the world. – John Thorn

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Dreams
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Planning to play: thats 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. – John Thorn

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Death
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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. – John Thorn

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I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I dont believe in people just hoping. – Aung San Suu Kyi

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I wish I could know everything ever, like that would be my wish – thats what I hope heaven is, that they tell you who shot JFK and all that stuff. – Louis C. K.

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Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all. – Emily Dickinson

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You never know what movie I will be in next, but lets just hope its sells (for my sake at least)! – Cameron Diaz

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