"Sometimes, quite out of the blue, sport will throw up a tender moment, when hostility ceases and an opponent is acknowledged."

-- Harsha Bhogle

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“There ought not be two histories, one of political and moral action and one of political and moral theorizing, because there were not two pasts, one populated only by actions, the other only by theories. Every action is the bearer and expression of more or less theory-laden beliefs and concepts; every piece of theorizing and every expression of belief is a politcal and moral action.”

Source : Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.72, A&C Black
“Not having heard something is not as good as having heard it; having heard it is not as good as having seen it; having seen it is not as good as knowing it; knowing it is not as good as putting it into practice.”

Source : Xunzi (1994). “Xunzi: Books 7-16”, p.81, Stanford University Press
“Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!”
“Usually, the first thing a country does in the course of economic development is to introduce a lot of livestock. Our data are showing that this is not a very smart move and the Chinese are listening. They are realizing that animal-based agriculture is not the way to go.... We are basically a vegetarian species and should be eating a wide variety of plant food and minimizing our intake of animal foods...”
“If you spend all of your time racing ahead to the future, you're liable to discover you've left a great present behind.”
“The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.”

Source : "The Gigantic Book of Teachers' Wisdom" y Erin Gruwell and Frank McCourt, (p. 496), 2007.
“Use vitamins in place of drugs. This takes some moxie to do, for we have been taught to be consumers of medicine. We have been taught that anything cheap and safe cannot possibly be effective.”

Source : "Helping People Doctor Themselves". Interview with Richard A. Passwater, wholefoodsmagazine.com. January 18, 2013.
“The term blowback, which officials of the Central Intelligent Agency first invented for their own internal use, . . . refers to the unintended consequences of policies that were kept secret from the American people. What the daily press reports as the malign act of terrorists or drug lords or rogue states or illegal arms merchants often turn out to be blowback from earlier American operations.”

Source : Chalmers Johnson (2001). “Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire”, p.23, Macmillan

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