"We forget that the nineteenth century often turned work into sport. We, in contrast, often turn sport into work."

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Geoffrey Blainey

#Sports Quotes #Forget Quotes #Century Quotes

“Show me anger and I will show you 'Hurt'. Show me hurt and I will show you 'Love'. Peel the layers if you care!”
“Necessity never made a good bargain.”
“I have often asked Americans wherein they consider their freedom superior to that of the English, but have never found them able to indicate a single point in which the individual is worse off in England as regards his private civil rights or his general liberty of doing and thinking as he pleases. They generally turn the discussion to social equality, the existence of a monarchy and hereditary titles and so forth - matters which are, of course, quite different from freedom in its proper sense.”
“I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me: and to me High mountains are a feeling, but the hum of human cities torture.”
“The public's appetite for famous people is a mouth as big as a mountain.”
“I was born out west but later on I migrated to the east side of Chicago. That's where my roots are at. I've been over east for more than ten years.”
“Having respect for animals makes us better humans..”
“I have friends in politics who really put the friendship to the test through their behavior.”

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