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• The magi, as you know, were wise men wonderfully wise men who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents.

  O. Henry

  Christmas, Wise, Art

  O Henry (2014). “The Gift of the Magi and Other Christmas Stories”, p.8, Xist Publishing

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• The squirrel has not yet found the acorn that will grow to the oak that will be cut to form the cradle of the babe that will grow to slay me.

  Neil Gaiman

  Cutting, Squirrels, Acorns

  Neil Gaiman (2007). “Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess's Stardust: Being a Romance Within the Realms of Faerie”, Vertigo

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• For a long time, I'd been vaguely fascinated by the idea that Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic and Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in the same summer.

  Bill Bryson

  Summer, Running, Home

  "Bill Bryson changes course for 'One Summer'". Interview with Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. October 28, 2013.

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• He was a parade all by himself, a burst of dazzle and jingle, Santa Claus drinking his whiskey straight and groaning with a bellyache... Babe Ruth made the music that his joyous years danced to in a continuous party... What Babe Ruth is comes down, one generation handing it down to the next, as a nation heirloom.

  Jimmy Cannon

  Baseball, Party, Drinking

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• Just relax. When I was younger, I made myself the victim of catastrophic thinking. Anything that went wrong was the end of the world. But as I've gotten older, I've learned to stop myself and say, 'Hey babe, calm down. Tomorrow there will be sun.'

  Gabourey Sidibe

  Thinking, Relax, Hey

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• God mark thee to His grace! Thou was the prettiest babe that e'er I nursed. And might I live to see thee married once, I have my wish.

  William Shakespeare

  Baby, Grace, Wish

  William Shakespeare, Alan Durband (1990). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.52, Nelson Thornes

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• A babe is a mother's anchor.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Mother, Baby, Anchors

  henry ward beecher (1858). “life thoughts,”, p.122

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• The home run became glorified with Babe Ruth. Starting with him, batters have been thinking in terms of how far they could hit the ball, not how often.

  Rogers Hornsby

  Running, Home, Thinking

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• Every big leaguer and his wife should teach their children to pray, God bless Mommy, God bless Daddy, and God bless Babe Ruth.

  Waite Hoyt

  Children, Daddy, Wife

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• Alas! dear Joy, the merriest, is dead. But I have wed Peace ; and our babe, a boy, New-born, is Joy.

  John B. Tabb

  Boys, Joy, Born

  John B Tabb (1894). “Poems by John B Tabb”

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• Baseball has traditionally possessed a wonderful lack of seriousness. The game's best player, Babe Ruth, was a Rabelaisian fat man, and its most loved manager, Casey Stengel, spoke gibberish. In this lazy sport, only the pitcher pours sweat. Then he takes three days off.

  Thomas Boswell

  Sports, Baseball, Men

  Thomas Boswell (1984). “Why Time Begins on Opening Day”, Doubleday Books

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• We are convinced that all of our race who die in infancy partake in the redemption wrought out by our Lord Jesus. Whatever some may think, we believe that the whole spirit and tone of the Word of God, as well as the nature of God Himself, lead us to believe that all who leave this world as babes are saved.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Believe, Thinking

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• The children with the streamlets sing, When April stops at last her weeping; And every happy growing thing Laughs like a babe just roused from sleeping.

  Lucy Larcom

  Children, Sleep, Laughing

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• Even as the unborn babe is in the womb of his mother, these five are fixed as his life destiny: his life span, his activities, his acquisition of wealth and knowledge, and his time of death.

  Chanakya

  Mother, Destiny, Religion

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• Born? Hell, Babe Ruth wasn't born. He fell from a tree.

  Joe Dugan

  Yankees, Tree, Ruth

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• Kiss me, please kiss me
  But kiss me out of desire, babe, and not consolation
  You know it makes me so angry 'cause i know that in time
  I'll only make you cry, this is our last goodbye.

  Jeff Buckley

  Goodbye, Kissing, Hug

  Song: Last Goodbye

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• Babe Ruth made a great mistake when he gave up pitching.

  Tris Speaker

  Baseball, Mistake, Ruth

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• Humanity is at the very beginning of its existence-a new-born babe, with all the unexplored potentialities of babyhood; and until the last few moments its interest has been centred, absolutely and exclusively, on its cradle and feeding bottle.

  James Jeans

  Science, Humanity, Bottles

  Sir James Hopwood Jeans (1928). “Nature”

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• And one of the things that I learned was you can't generalise at all about a woman in a veil. You can't think you know her story, because she will confound you over and over again. She may be an engineer or a diplomat or a doctor. Or she may be an unbelievable babe with bleached hair down to her waist.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Thinking, Doctors, Hair

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• You don't have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he's just this magnificent human being. And a really good story because he was this kid who grew up essentially as an orphan, you know, had a tough life, and then he became the most successful baseball player ever. But he was also a really good guy.

  Bill Bryson

  Baseball, Kids, Successful

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• I was making stickers for guys' bands. I was in the front row photographing bands, booking bands, doing all of the kind of backstage stuff, and I didn't even think for a second I could do it, and then I saw Babes in Toyland, and all that changed.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Thinking, Guy, Stuff

  "The original riot grrrl on Katy Perry, '90s revival". Interview with Abbey Goodman, www.cnn.com. June 7, 2011.

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• I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash'd babe, and am not contained between my hat and my boots.

  Walt Whitman

  Dying, Boots, Leaves Of Grass

  Walt Whitman, Sculley Bradley, Harold W. Blodgett (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856”, p.8, NYU Press

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• Babes, I am so bored here that I don't think, since I've come, I've ever been more than three minutes away from some really astonishing act of violence.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Thinking, Bored, Three

  "Dhalgren". Book by Samuel R. Delany, January, 1975.

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• Nice tackle, babe." Ranger

  Janet Evanovich

  Nice, Rangers

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• I'm sorry about your Porsche." "I can replace the Porsche. I can't replace you. You need to be more careful." I was just sitting in your car!" Babe, you're a magnet for disaster.

  Janet Evanovich

  Sorry, Car, Sitting

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “Eleven on Top”, p.72, Macmillan

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