Rene Maheu famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There is only one emotion that I know of which has absolutely no place in spectator sport and death to it - laughter.
-- Rene Maheu

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Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
After love, book collecting is the most exhilarating sport of all.
I've always envied the kind of coach who could go completely out of his mind and nobody would know the difference.
Do you recall the laughter of the Philistines at the helpless Sampson? You can hear the echo of that laughter to-day, as the church, shorn of her strength by her own sin, is an object of ridicule to the world, who cry in derision, "Where is your boasted triumph and your Millennial glory?
Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature, and is purifying only in so far as there is a natural and unschooled goodness in the human heart.
Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
What I find interesting is how close you can run the laughter along the seam of seriousness, and occasionally cross it, so that half the house genuinely doesn't know whether to laugh or cry. Custard pie humour is fairly universal, but at the other end, which I'm more interested in, there's the humour that hovers on the darkness, that walks in the shadow of something else, not always that obvious.
The more modest its intellectual ballast, the more exclusively it takes into consideration the emotions of the masses, the more effective [propaganda] will be.
My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later.

Rene Maheu famous quotes

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