"There is no sports event like Opening Day of baseball, the sense of beating back the forces of darkness and the National Football League."

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Source : George Vecsey (1989). “A Year in the Sun: The Games, the Players, the Pleasure of Sports”, Crown Publishers

George Vecsey

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“Television isn't inherently good or bad. You go to a bookstore, there are how many thousands of books, but how many of those do you want? Five? Television's the same way. If you're going to show people stuff, television is the way to go. Words and pictures show things.”
“We shall never stop until we can go back home and Israel is destroyed... The goal of our struggle is the end of Israel, and there can be no compromises or mediations... the goal of this violence is the elimination of Zionism from Palestine in all its political, economic and military aspects... We don't want peace, we want victory. Peace for us means Israel's destruction and nothing else.”

Source : The Washington Post, March 29, 1970.
“It's easy to forget people are blood and bone. They're not indestructible.”
“It is the great sadness of our species that we have not found a way to eliminate the conflict and to eliminate violence as a device to resolve our conflicts throughout the entire history of the human race.”
“Like Zidane I want to inspire the kids”
“There was a moment in between, a moment flung free in the midst of the transition, when he made contact. That was the moment she would dwell on.”
“Social issues have been used to distract Americans from their own self interests since Nixon's southern strategy, and now people are paying the price.”

Source : "Deborah Kass On Appropriation, Barbra Streisand, And The Dissolving Middle Class". Interview with Hallie Sekoff, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2012.
“He has the most who is most content with the least.”

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