"In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports."

-- Billie Jean King

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“Creditors have better memories than debtors.”
“Life is about fighting. You will going to have to fight everyday of your lifetime.”
“Working together we can strengthen Delaware State University and the students who attend it.”
“... he became an officer and a gentleman, which is an enviable thing;”
“Every moral act of love, of mercy, and of sacrifice brings to pass the end of the world where hatred, cruelty, and selfishness reign supreme.”
“I approach poetry and spirituality like literary nitroglycerin -- a little can do a lot and you better damn well be careful with it.”

Source : Craig Johnson (2004). “The Cold Dish: A Longmire Mystery”, p.277, Penguin
“I wanna say 'China', but I don't really mean 'China.' I just mean the places that Chinese people come from.”
“The prospect of future lives in remote heavens as a compensation for the inadequacy of our present lives is a bad tradeoff for losing out on the present.”

Source : Francis Harold Cook (1978). “How to Raise an Ox: Zen Practice as Taught in Zen Master Dogen's Shobogenzo, Including Ten Newly Translated Essays”

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