The love for baseball is a love that transcends time and place, connecting us to a rich history

Israel is excessively joined to America, also affected by America. It ought to be associated with Europe. America depends on folklore – the liberated person, the individual, the open boondocks. Europe is increasingly aware of history. Take Britain and Shakespeare. You shape your personality through history.

If anyone thinks that Jews can steal into the land of their fathers, he is deceiving either himself or others. Nowhere is the coming of Jews so promptly noted as in the historic home of the Jews, for the very reason that it is the historic home.

History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the Improbable.

Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.

Anything else you’re interested in is not going to happen if you can’t breathe the air and drink the water. Don’t sit this one out. Do something. You are by accident of fate alive at an absolutely critical moment in the history of our planet.

Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history.