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"The great appear great because we are on our knees: Let us rise." – Camille Desmoulins
"The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is ever condemned to find much of his own mind." – Francis Herbert Bradley (1846–1924), "Aphorisms" (1930).
"Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal." – George Will, in "Men at Work : The Craft of Baseball" (1990), p. 294.