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Baseball is Heaven's gift to mortals.

Baseball is a habit. The slowly rising crescendo of each game, the rhythm of the long season--these are the essentials and they are remarkably unchanged over nearly a century and a half. Of how many American institutions can that be said?

All I remember about my wedding day in 1967 is that the Cubs lost a double-header.

Each achieves one or both of two objectives — making liberals feel good about themselves and being good to liberal candidates.

All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.

She is so totally absorbed in a vocation - both a gift and a mastering passion - that she has no time to be absorbed with the self's worries about itself. And that is the moral of the story: You can pursue happiness by wearing a torn jersey. You can catch it by being good at something you love.

According to the University of Illinois' Arctic Climate Research Center, global sea ice levels now equal those of 1979.

Capital punishment, like the rest of the criminal justice system, is a government program, so skepticism is in order.

Football brings out the sociologist that lurks in some otherwise respectable citizens. They say football is a metaphor for America's sinfulness.

Semicolons . . . signal, rather than shout, a relationship. . . . A semicolon is a compliment from the writer to the reader. It says: "I don't have to draw you a picture; a hint will do."

I say statecraft is soulcraft. Just as all education is moral education because learning conditions conduct, most legislation is moral legislations because it conditions the action and the thought of the nation in broad and important spheres in life.

Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind of people do we want our citizens to be?

Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes

Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community.

The problem with intelligent-design theory, is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable. Not being susceptible to contradicting evidence, it is not a testable hypothesis. Hence it is not a scientific but a creedal tenet - a matter of faith, unsuited to a public school's science curriculum.

We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge

Today it would be progress if everyone would stop talking about values. Instead, let us talk, as the Founders did, about virtues.

The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron.

We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.

It is extraordinary how extraordinary the ordinary person is.