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Joe DiMaggio batted safely in 56 consecutive games in 1941, the same season Ted Williams batted .406—but did you know that also in 1941, Jeff Heath, an outfielder who spent a decade playing for the Indians, became the first player in AL history to hit 20 doubles, 20 triples, and 20 home runs in the same season? It’s true. ↗

— Tucker Elliot

#baseball-quotes #baseball-stats #baseball-trivia #boston-red-sox #cleveland-indians

It's easy to fall in love among the winding cobblestone streets and snow-covered castles of Prague, but is it a good idea? ↗

— Dana Newman

#love #prague #romance #young-love #love

The battle was over. Our causalities were some thirteen thousand killed. Thirteen thousand minds, memories, loves, sensations, worlds, universes- because the human mind is more a universe than the universe itself- and all for a few hundred yards of useless mud. ↗

— John Fowles

#love

Your transparency is just another one of your disguises, isn't it? ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#lion #wicked #men

The overdressed traveler betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveler knows that the novel world about her serves as the most appropriate accessory. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#inspirational #travel #wicked #inspirational

Your world of poverty can be recreated to that of affluence simply by speaking the Prince's language. ↗

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#be-different #inspirational-quotes #risk-it #self-improvement #success

I would have strong opinions and be prepared to argue my case, but if you talk to my colleagues, I think you'd find they consider me the jokester, the informal mayor of the West Wing. ↗

— Karl Rove

#be prepared #case #colleagues #consider #find

My first year of pro ball I played in the Northwest league and made the all-star team, and the next year I played I led the team in hitting and was third or fifth in the league. ↗

— Kurt Russell

#ball #fifth #first #hitting #i

Marriage? It's like asparagus eaten with vinaigrette or hollandaise, a matter of taste but of no importance. ↗

— Francoise Sagan

#eaten #importance #like #marriage #matter

Madness is the acme of intelligence. ↗

— نجيب محفوظ

#intelligence #madness #mahfouz #naguib #intelligence