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“[Judge and Jury] is outstanding. I have learned more about the history of baseball, true history, than from anything I have ever read or heard about. [It's] research and documentation clarifies so many of the personalities and events that took place before 'my time' in the game. Jacques Barzun's quote: 'Whoever would know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball' should be supplanted by [this] biography of Landis.”

Knows Should Mind Heart America Games Heard Events Judging Personality Research Baseball My Time I Have Learned Biographies Heart And Mind Outstanding Jury Documentation Judge And Jury Landi

Author:Ralph Kiner

“Science seldom proceeds in the straightforward logical manner imagined by outsiders. Instead, its steps forward (and sometimes backward) are often very human events in which personalities and cultural traditions play major roles.”

Humans Sometimes Play Steps Roles Events Personality Majors Tradition Logical Outsiders Straightforward Steps Forward

Book:The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA

Source: The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA

“The reader brings to the work personality traits, memories of past events, present needs and preoccupations, a particular mood of the moment and a particular physical condition. These and many other elements in a never-to-be-duplicated combination determine his response to the text.”

Needs Moments Past Memories Conditions Events Particular Personality Reader Elements Response Determine Mood Combination Traits Preoccupation Personality Traits Past Events

Book:Transactions with literature: a fifty-year perspective : for Louise M. Rosenblatt

Source: Transactions with literature: a fifty-year perspective : for Louise M. Rosenblatt

“Employing women as my primary protagonists has allowed me to step outside of myself, to distance myself from my own personality, far more easily than were I to look at events from a masculine perspective.”

Looks My Own Steps Events Perspective Personality Distance Primaries Masculine Protagonists Employing My Own Personality Distance Myself

Author:Tom Robbins

“When you get new people in, you're going to have a breath of fresh air and there's going to be a window when people will decide what direction to go. It'll be determined by outside events, by the personalities that occupy those positions, and by the treatment they receive both from the press and the public, of the honeymoon period.”

People Air Events Position Personality Periods Window Breaths Presses Determined Treatment Fresh Air Honeymoon

Author:Ted Gup

“Just as an informal, nonscientific observation, most people's personalities don't seem to change very much during their lives. There are exceptions in the case of people who go through hugely traumatic events or suffer from brain injury or disease. Some would argue that religious conversions can have deep personality-altering effects. But these are all exceptions to the rule.”

People Seems Suffering Religious Brain Cases Effects Events Personality Disease Arguing Conversion Observation Injury Exception Exception To The Rule Traumatic Events Brain Injury

Author:Neal Stephenson