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“Finally, if you will permit me, I'd like to make a comment which in my mind, is indicative, perhaps, of the greater significance of football and sports emphasis in general in this country, and that is, I thank God I was warring on the gridirons of the Midwest and not on the battlefields of Europe. I can speak confidently and positively that the players of this country would much more, much rather, struggle and fight to win the Heisman award than the Croix de guerre.”
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“It's still one of the proudest moments in my career boxing at Madison Square Garden. Some fighters who have won titles and championships have never boxed at Madison Square Garden. For a little kid just off a council estate to do it was a dream come true.”
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“I always performed as a kid to make my family laugh and was more concerned with making kids at school laugh than I was about the lessons.”
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“The conception of what is normal varies not only with the culture but also within the same culture, in the course of time.”
Source : Karen Horney (2013). “The Neurotic Personality Of Our Time”, p.15, Routledge
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“And never since harvests were ripened, / Or laborers born, / Have men gathered figs of the thistle, / Or grapes of the thorn!”
Source : Phoebe Cary (1868). “Poems of Faith, Hope, and Love”, p.202
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“I swear...I'll deliver the message for the love of my country.”
Source : Kristen Britain (2008). “Green Rider: Book One of Green Rider”, p.19, Penguin
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“The man of wisdom is devoid of ego even though he may appear to use it. His vacant or fasting mind is neither doing anything nor not doing anything. He is outside of volition, neither this nor that. He is everything and nothing.”
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“The woman is the man's glory, and she naturally delights in the praises which are assurances that she is fulfilling her function; and she gives herself to him who succeeds in convincing her that she, of all others, is best able to discharge it for him. A woman without this kind of "vanity" is a monster.”
Source : Coventry Patmore (2016). “The Rod, the Root and the Flower”, p.20, Lulu.com
