Higher-level capture devices, because they are complicated and involve novel applications of new technologies, tend to fail in unexpected ways. Thus, only after some years was it realized that Hot Spot may not work well if the weather is very hot and that it may...
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Harry Collins
Winning isn't everything--but wanting to win is.
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Vince Lombardi Jr.
The score never interested me, only the game.
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Mae West
Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game
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Babe Ruth
I've never lost a game I just ran out of time.
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Michael Jordan
More Quotes By John Leonard
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
Popular culture is where we go to talk to and agree with one another; to simplify ourselves; to find our herd. It’s like going to the Automat to buy an emotion. The thrills are cheap and the payoffs predictable and, after a while, the repetition...
In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the same of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold.
To be capable of embarrassment is the beginning of moral consciousness. Honor grows from qualms.
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
