"Gymnastics has become degraded as the participants have become younger. Once it was a sport of grace for women, never for little girls."

-- Vera Caslavska

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“He grunted. 'You have the courage of a warrior.' I watched him turn away and gather the clothes from the ground. He thought me courageous? But I was terrified - always terrified. 'No,' I said flatly. 'I don't." He paused from stuffing the invaluable robe between two bales. 'Are you frightened now?' I nodded, shame flushing my skin. 'Is it going to stop you?' 'No.' 'That is the courage of a warrior.”
“If ever there was an area in which to do the exact opposite of that which government and the media urge you to do, that area is the purchasing of gold.”
“They're both [Ethan Hawke and John Travolta] so good. It's hard to explain. But they're consummate professionals and you see the little choices they make - you see it in their eye. You see these little details they do where you go, "That's why they're them."”
“War cannot be driven out by war, for the use of evil breeds more evil, hostility more hostility, and the use of force more force.”
“Nothing will replace good journalism.”
“The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song. Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.”

Source : Twitter post from Dec 12, 2014
“What we want is never simple.”

Source : "What We Want". Poem by Linda Pastan, as published in her book "Carnival Evening: New and Selected Poems, 1968-1998", 1998.
“This fight isn't about boxing, it's something deeper than that.”

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