"A better world could be brought about only by better individuals."

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Source : "Attaining the Ideals". Awake! Magazine, September 8, 2000.

Pierre de Coubertin

#World Quotes #Individual Quotes

“I earn - I'm not - I don't want to claim I'm a scholar of great stature, but I have made a certain reputation for myself, I've published several books, I've never been able to get a permanent teaching job.”
“He loves basketball. And I said Obama loves basketball. Let's start there, all right. Start there.”
“The negro king desired to be portrayed as white. But do not laugh at the poor African; for every man is but another negro king, and would like to appear in a color different from that with which Fate has bedaubed him.”
“Nobody can fail to lose weight in the jungle, unless they've got a secret stash of pork pies somewhere.”
“Look to the nervous system as the key to maximum health.”
“And to me, I had come out of Texas, and during that time was when I realized that a lot of people in Nashville, their idea of what country music was was not the same as mine.”
“Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family.”
“I prefer to see myself as the Janus, the two-faced god who is half Pollyanna and half Cassandra, warning of the future and perhaps living too much in the pastÂ—a combination of both.”

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