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Rob Bishop: if you recall back to the movie ``The Natural,'' if you remember there is that one wonderful scene where this mythical…

On the recordJune 5, 2008
if you recall back to the movie ``The Natural,'' if you remember there is that one wonderful scene where this mythical team, the New York Knights, have called in a psychologist to talk to the team to try to get them out of their losing slump. And as they are sitting there, talking to these ballplayers he says, ``The mind is a strange thing, men. We must begin by asking, what is losing? Losing is a disease that is as contagious as syphilis. Losing is a disease as contagious as the bubonic plague, attacking one, but infecting all. But curable. Now I want you to imagine you are on a vast ocean. You are on a ship at sea gently rocking, gently rocking, gently rocking, gently rocking.'' In that scene Roy Hobbs, now in disgust, breaks out of that and leaves this therapy session, because he recognizes that the solution to their losing season is not sitting there talking philosophically about it, but actually going out on the field and doing something. We today in the issue of energy are in the mode of simply talking about it.
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Rob Bishop
Republican · Utah

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the need for action on energy issues rather than just theoretical discussions.

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