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Quote by Jackie Robinson

“Baseball, like some other sports, poses as a sacred institution dedicated to the public good, but it is actually a big, selfish business with a ruthlessness that many big businesses would never think of displaying.”

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Jackie Robinson

Jackie Robinson, born on January 31, 1919, and died on October 24, 1972, was an iconic figure in American professional baseball history. He is best known as the first African American player in Major League Baseball, and his leadership in the civil rights movement is highly respected. more

“Just as a person who is always asserting that he is too good-natured is the very one from whom to expect, on some occasion, the coldest and most unconcerned cruelty, so when any group sees itself as the bearer of civilization this very belief will betray it into behaving barbarously at the first opportunity.”

Firsts Persons Opportunity Belief Groups Civilization Cruelty Occasions Betray Colonialism Unconcerned

Author:Simone Weil

“We should do only those righteous actions which we cannot stop ourselves from doing.”

Should Action Righteous

Book:The Notebooks of Simone Weil

Source: The Notebooks of Simone Weil

“prayer consists of attention. It is the orientation of all the attention of which the soul is capable towards God. The quality of the attention counts for much in the quality of the prayer. Warmth of heart cannot make up for it.”

Heart Soul Prayer Attention Quality Capable Warmth Orientation Warmth Of Heart

Book:Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)

Source: Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)

“It may be that vice, depravity, and crime are nearly always, or even perhaps always, in their essence, attempts to eat beauty, to eat what we should only look at.”