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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have lost count of how many wars I have actively and largely ineffectively tried to stop.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am first and foremost a storyteller; I want to tell a good story, and I want it to mean something - something that I think is important.
- Considerable
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have written a considerable amount - both fiction and nonfiction - about the Caribbean. My love for this part of the world is centered on a deep admiration for its people - a people who are both tough and romantic, dreamers and cynics, people who face a thousand defeats and are never defeated.
- Baseball
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- Nov 07, 2020
What sets baseball apart from other sports is the array of skills that every player needs: the speed, the power, the agility.
- Baseball
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- Nov 07, 2020
Baseball players are not specialists; they all have to do it all. That is why I, and many aficionados, dislike the American League's practice of replacing the pitcher with a designated hitter. This creates two players who do not have to do it all.
- Does
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- Nov 07, 2020
Violence does not resolve. It always leads to more violence.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
People motivated by fear do not act well.
- Fish
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Pilgrims were unified by their religious zeal, but they couldn't fish, they didn't know how to hunt, and they were bad at farming. In fact, they never had a good harvest until they learned to fish cod and plow the waste in the ground as fertilizer.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would like to know what politicians eat on the campaign trail, what Picasso ate in his pink period, what Walt Whitman ate while writing the verse that defined America, what mid-westerners bring to potlucks, what is served at company banquets, what is in a Sunday dinner these days, and what workers bring for lunch.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
What people eat is not well documented. Food writers prefer to focus on fashionable, expensive restaurants whose creative dishes reflect little of what most people are eating.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that Judaism has been, throughout its history since A.D. 70, a diaspora culture that's all about being a minority. In fact, being a small minority. When I'm in Israel, I cannot get used to the notion that we're all Jewish. It doesn't seem to me that we're supposed to all be Jewish.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 'A Chosen Few,' I spent hours and hours listening to the pain of people of who had survived wondering why they survived and what their life means and what right do they have to survive.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before refrigeration, most food was heavily salted. Many of these salted foods have persisted, such as sauerkraut, pickles, cured anchovies, cheese, salted butter, ham, corned beef, sausage, and bacon. We still eat these things because we like them. But they are no longer the mainstay of our diet.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Salt is an unusual food product because it is almost universal - all human beings need salt, and most choose to eat more than is necessary.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020