"The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself."

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Dawn Fraser

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“Where there is no justice there can be no secure peace.”
“Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.”
“I am now known as Nina Conti's father and it's wonderful.”
“Usually, the creating of the book happens while I'm writing the book. I start with Chapter One, with a few ideas and a handful of characters, and the book grows from there.”

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“Music should be your escape.”
“When [Bernie] Sanders was challenged about how he would pass his visionary ideas after he became president, he talked about if lawmakers look out the window and they see a million people marching, it changes their calculus. Well, here's an opportunity to continue working to organize these million people even if he is not the one in office.”
“In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.”
“Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.”

Source : Adam Smith, comte Germain Garnier, Dugald Stewart (1835). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.96

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