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When An American Declares Bankruptcy, When He Hits Bottom, He Can Reinvent Himself. There's A Story He Can Tell. We Tolerate Reinvention. We Encourage Reinvention. That's What This Country Has That Europe Does Not. It's Not Just A Crisis; It's An Opportunity.

Commitment, By Its Nature, Frees Us From Ourselves And, While It Stands Us In Opposition To Some, It Joins Us With Others Similarly Committed. Commitment Moves Us From The Mirror Trap Of The Self Absorbed With The Self To The Freedom Of A Community Of Shared Values.

We Change For The Good So Long As Good Exists Around Us.

The Sheer Quantity Of Brain Power That Hurled Itself Voluntarily And Quixotically Into The Search For New Baseball Knowledge Was Either Exhilarating Or Depressing, Depending On How You Felt About Baseball. The Same Intellectual Resources Might Have Cured The Common Cold, Or Put A Man On Pluto.

You Can Anchor The Mind Into Answering A Question A Certain Way By Giving Them A Totally Unrelated Piece Of Information Dropped Before.