"Getting to know athletes from all over the planet is a big part of the Olympic experience."

-- Mary Lou Retton

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“In science, the best precept is to alter and exchange our ideas as fast as science moves ahead.”
“I love the feeling of being on the hunt - the feeling that the story is refusing to be solved in some lesser way and is insisting that you see it on its highest terms.”
“Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power.”
“Inspiration is a sustainable internal glow which pulls you forward.”
“I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade unprecedented in the history of cinema.”
“Yet in the blood of man there is a tide, an old sea-current, rather, that is somehow akin to the twilight, which brings him rumours of beauty from however far away, as drift-wood is found at sea from islands not yet discovered; and this spring-tide or current that visits the blood of man comes from the fabulous quarter of his lineage, from the legendary, of old; it takes him out to the woodlands, out to the hills; he listens to ancient song.”

Source : Lord Dunsany (2015). “The Book of Wonder”, p.4, Booklassic
“When he is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something; ... he learns his ignorance, is cured of the insanity of conceit; has got moderation and real skill.”
“There are millions of white Americans today who still can barely bring themselves to acknowledge that the Civil War, with its twin Americas locked in a death match, was about slavery. They'll argue it was about economics, and they're right only because one of those economies was a slave economy. They'll argue it was about culture, and they're right only because one of those cultures was a slave culture.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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