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Alvin Dark, former baseball coach · Bob Bennett, WDIV News 4, Detroit, reporting on a flood that destroyed some suburban basement apartments.

Progress always involves risk you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first base. – Frederick Wilcox
...it is a base thing to look to others for your defense instead of depending upon yourself. That defense alone is effectual, sure, and durable which depends upon yourself and your own valor. – Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd, in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pandar, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch: one whom I will beat into clamorous whining, if thou deniest the least syllable of thy addition. – Earl of Kent, _The_Tragedy_of_King_Lear_
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand. – Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you. – William Blake
Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates; The fumes of it invade the brain, And make men giddy, proud, and vain; By this the fool commands the wise, The noble with the base complies, The sot assumes the rule of wit, And cowards make the base submit. – Butler
Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It's an unfair game. – Rod Kanehl
Edwards missed getting Stearns at third base by an eyeball. – Jerry Coleman
Emotion is a rotten base for politics. – Dick Francis
Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life. – Julia T. Alvarez
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. – Albert Einstein
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. – Albert Einstein
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. – Albert Einstein
Houston, uh, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed. – Neil Armstrong
I base most of my fashion sense on whether or not it itches. – Gilda Radner
I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch. – Gilda Radner
If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base. – Dave Barry
If I were playing third base and my mother were rounding third with the run that was going to beat us, I'd trip her. Oh, I'd pick her up and brush her off and say, 'Sorry, Mom, but nobody beats me.' – Leo Durocher
In every bit of honest writing in the world, there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and nearly always leads to love. – John Steinbeck
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people. – Giordano Bruno
Knowledge is destroyed by associating with the base; with equals equality is gained, and with the distinguished, distinction. – The Hitopadesa
Refrain from doing ill for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds we are all to prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved. – Juvenal
Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved. – Juvenal
Science is going to build a base on the Moon! This is a very necessary and a very possible mission! Start and finish! Thousands of problems will arise in this mission, thousands of solutions will be found! Start and finish! Moon is a good hole to enter the blood vessels of the universe. Start and finish! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Solo homers usually come with no one on base. – Ralph Kiner

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