"The only good reason for swimming, so far as I can see, is to escape drowning."

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Source : Helen Cresswell (2017). “The Bagthorpe Saga: Ordinary Jack (Collins Modern Classics)”, p.14, HarperCollins UK

Helen Cresswell

#Sports Quotes #Swimming Quotes #Reason Quotes

“I'm confident President Obama will continue his unambiguous commitment to the Jewish state in his second term.”
“It is purity of spirit that will keep corruption from the flesh”
“People can be a fine substitute for other dogs. But I think that if they had to choose, dogs by and large would choose the company of other dogs.”
“The objective of nuclear-weapons policy should not be solely to decrease the number of weapons in the world, but to make the world safer - which is not necessarily the same thing.”

Source : Herman Kahn, Paul Dragoș Aligică, Kenneth R. Weinstein (2009). “The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking”, p.29, Lexington Books
“You know, if Chyna had a nipple for every time someone said she was the breast looking woman here, she'd be a millionaire!”
“I am not a good shot. Few of us are. To make up for this I hold my fire until I have a shot of less than 20 degrees deflection and until I'm within 300 yards. Good discipline on this score can make up for a great deal.”
“The world itself is the will to power - and nothing else! And you yourself are the will to power - and nothing else!”
“Practice with the obstacle, always with the obstacle, and seek combinations.”

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