Americans addiction to sports, with the NFL at the top, is based on the excitement generated by the potential for the unexpected great play which can only happen with honest competition from great athletes. – Arlen Specter
People who think they know what they are talking about when they talk about baseball include the announcers and all of the sports press – no matter how much evidence you present them to the contrary they will continue to think that what they think is right. – Michael Lewis
Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But Id like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash. – Ruth Ann Minner
If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system. – William James
All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control. – Chauncey Wright
