"Sport allows us to engage in dialogue and to build bridges, and it may even have the capacity to reshape international relations. The Olympic Games embody perfectly this universal mission."

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Source : "The Olympics and the Spirit of Sport" by Richard Attias, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 27, 2012.

Richard Attias

#Sports Quotes #Games Quotes #Bridges Quotes

“Why do critics make such an outcry against tragicomedies? is not life one?”
“Forward my mail to Mars.”
“It is difficult to speak of what is common in a way of your own.”
“Axiom: you are a sea. Your eye- lids curve over chaos My hands where they touch you, create small inhabited islands soon you will be all earth: a known land, a country.”
“We till shadowed days are done, We must weep and sing Duty's conscious wrong, The Devil in the clock”
“Love is nature's LSD. You're going to see things that aren't really there.”
“Never get bored or cynical. Yesterday is a thing of the past.”
“This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion.”

Source : Joseph Lancaster (1803). “Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing, a Short Account of Its Present State, Hints Towards Its Improvement, and a Detail of Some Practical Experiments Conducive to that End”, p.50

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