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Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Right is what turns out right.

http://wap.mlb.com/cin/news/article/2010063011759146/

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Monday, June 28, 2010

"I don't measure success in terms of wins and losses," he told a
reporter some years later. "I think there's a lot to be learned in
defeat. I guess I really determine success by how much the kids enjoy
themselves. I mean, all it is is a sport and nothing else, right?
Games [have] become a semireligion."

http://images.si.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1171199/2/index.htm

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Saturday, June 26, 2010

Thursday, June 24, 2010

a pleasant experience isn't recalled later as more pleasurable just
because it lasts longer

http://mobile.boston.com/art/21//bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/06/20/the_best_vacation_ever/?single=1&p=2

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Wednesday, June 23, 2010

The general's staff is a handpicked collection of killers, spies,
geniuses, patriots, political operators and outright maniacs.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/119236

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Thursday, June 17, 2010

"It's a strange game," Arroyo said. "Against the Royals, I had great
stuff and a four-run lead and couldn't hold it. Today I'm in trouble
every inning and find a way to wiggle out of it."

http://m.mlb.com/cin/news/recap/2010061711279260

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Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Being bored is a precious thing, a state of mind we should pursue.

http://blogs.hbr.org/bregman/2010/06/why-i-returned-my-ipad.html

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Friday, June 11, 2010

In 1960 a young American lawyer, Mark McCormack, shook hands with an
American golfer, Arnold Palmer, agreed to represent him, and invented
the profession of the sports agent, which has led almost all modern
sports stars to moonlight as corporate marketing tools.

http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/ideas/tim-de-lisle/how-did-sport-get-so-big

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Wednesday, June 02, 2010

Swedes of any class have a sense of belonging, and of obligation to
their country that is entirely different from the British or American
attitudes toward the poor. Perhaps I know the wrong millionaires, but
I have never met any rich Swedes who did not feel some sense of
obligation to the poor, even when they were living in tax exile. It is
not just a matter of charity, but of fellow feeling. That is not my
experience in Britain or in the U.S., where riches are felt to turn
you into a different, and possibly better, sort of person altogether,
not least by their possessors.

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/05/26/were_all_swedes_now?page=full

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Tuesday, June 01, 2010

I expect that within the next five years more than one in ten people
will wear head-mounted computer displays while traveling in buses,
trains, and planes.

http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2010/05/predicting_the.php

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