"Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport."

-- Pierre de Coubertin

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“I like the Bible folded between lids of cloth, or calfskin, or morocco, but I like it better when, in the shape of a man, it goes out into the world-a Bible illustrated.”

Source : Thomas De Witt Talmage (1872). “Sermons”, p.240
“Everything we do is either an act of love or a cry for help.”
“Beauty? To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to.”
“After a rest in Edinburgh, where, passing a music-shop, I heard some blind man playing a mazurka of mine...”
“For me, acting was always a way to explore emotions - to dip into the well and really try to reach rock bottom down there. That was the most exciting part of it. I hadn't found anything that really allowed me to do that until I came upon acting.”

Source : Interview with Alan Cumming, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 8, 2013.
“I write music just for me. I'm certainly not good enough to do it on any kind of a level but I enjoy that time because it's quiet.”
“They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it.”
“It is my judgment that any man or woman can do more to conform to the laws of God in one year in this life than they could do in ten years when they are dead. The spirit can only repent and change, and then the battle has to go forward with the flesh afterwards. It is much easier to overcome and serve the Lord when both flesh and spirit are combined as one. This is the time when men are more pliable and susceptible. We will find when we are dead every desire, every feeling will be greatly intensified. When clay is pliable it is much easier to change than when it gets hard and sets.”

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