"The ancient Greeks kept women athletes out of their games. They wouldn't even let them on the sidelines. I'm not sure but that they were right."

-- Avery Brundage

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“I honestly believe that sound commercialism is the best test of true value in art. People work hard for their money and if they won't part with it for your product the chances are that your product hasn't sufficient value. An artist or writer hasn't any monopoly .... If the public response to his artistry is lacking, he'd do well to spend more time analyzing what's the matter with his work, and less time figuring what's the matter with the public.”

Source : Berton Braley (1934). “Pegasus Pulls a Hack: Memoirs of a Modern Minstrel”
“Therefore, it is forbidden to say anything to anyone that might cause animosity between any two people.”
“I never want my kids to feel like I'm just some housewife who was just kicking it with my husband, because that's not the kind of woman that I am.”
“Arrange photographs of nature scenes, animals and expressions of joy and love in your environment and let their energy radiate into your heart and provide you with their higher frequency.”
“First, if it is true that a spatial order organizes an ensemble of possibilities (e.g., by a place in which one can move) and interdictions (e.g., by a wall that prevents one from going further), than the walked actualizes some of these possibilities. In that way, he makes them exist as well as emerge. But he also moves them about and he invents others, since the crossing, drifting away, or improvisation of walking privilege, transform, or abandon spatial elements.”

Source : Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.98, Univ of California Press
“Never ever waver. Be on record. Don't be on the wrong side of history.”
“A man with a career can have no time to waste upon his wife and friends; he has to devote it wholly to his enemies.”
“His version of 'real' love isn't sufficient for me, I don't think anyone should settle for so little. It wasn't love - not in the true sense. On my part, it was neediness, insecurity, dependence, habit - desperate to feel loved by a man who was often ambivalent towards me.Â ”

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