A Quote by Benedetto Croce
We shall not understand the history of men and other times unless we ourselves are alive to the requirements which that history satisfied.
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I try to understand other people's viewpoints on things and be better in the future. I think if you look at my history as a baseball player, my history on social media and my history as a person, for those who know me well, they know that I apply that process to everything that I do.
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