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Running for Donuts combines all of Coach Jeff’s experiences, his knowledge and the stories from his devoted listeners. It’s one of those books that will make you smile and if you are a runner, inspire you to lace up those shoes and head
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“Until there is a common vocabulary and a shared historical memory there is no peace in any society, only an absence of war. The fighting may have stopped in Bosnia or Cyprus but this does not mean the war is over. The search for a common narrative must, at times, be forced upon a society. Few societies seem able to do this willingly.”
― War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
― War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
“The walking of which I speak has nothing in it akin to taking exercise, as it is called, as the sick take medicine at stated hours …but it is itself the enterprise and adventure of the day.”
― Walking
― Walking
“Relief pitchers have only recently begun receiving proper recognition. When Whitey Ford rose at the New York Baseball Writers banquet to receive the Cy Young Award for the 1961 season, he said he had a nine-minute speech but would deliver only seven minutes of it. He would let Luis Arroyo, who had saved so many of Ford’s wins, do the final two minutes.”
― Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball
― Men at Work: The Craft of Baseball
“The impetus for most fundamentalist movements—whether Mormon, Catholic, Evangelical Christian, Muslim, or Jewish—is a yearning to return to the mythical order and perfection of the original church.”
― Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
― Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
“If dark energy is a cosmological constant, the equation of state parameter w equals -1 exactly, and we get a Heat Death. If w is at all lower than -1, even one part in a billion billions, dark energy is phantom dark energy, capable of tearing the universe apart. Because it’s impossible to ever measure anything with complete, uncertainty-free precision, the best we may ever be able to do is say that if the Big Rip does occur, it will be so far in the future that all structure in the cosmos will have decayed already by the time it happens.”
― The End of Everything [Astrophysically Speaking]
― The End of Everything [Astrophysically Speaking]
Steve’s 2025 Year in Books
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