"Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended." ― George Bernard Shaw Topic(s): Great Tags: advantage, baseball, great More From George Bernard Shaw "The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself." "Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything." "Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world." More In Great "The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson."― Orison Swett Marden "Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm."― Charles Caleb Colton "Iran is a country of 80 million people, educated and dynamic. It sits astride a crucial part of the world. It cannot be sanctioned and pressed down forever. It is the last great civilization to sit outside the global order."― Fareed Zakaria