"We have no target for the number of medals we hope to win in 2012 - yet. But we want every kid in the country to have the chance to have the best opportunities."

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Source : "Sports bodies streamlined to prepare future medal winners" by Andrew Culf, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2005.

Tessa Jowell

#Country Quotes #Kids Quotes #Winning Quotes

“When you sacrifice, you force others to sacrifice. It's an extremely powerful weapon.”

Source : Cesar Chavez, Richard Jay Jensen, John C. Hammerback (2002). “The Words of César Chávez”, p.71, Texas A&M University Press
“I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart”
“I'm obsessed with getting married, but I don't even have a boyfriend.”
“This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have conclusions without deductions, abridgments of history and abridgments of science without leading facts. We have animals for literature, Cabinet Encyclopaedias, Family Libraries, Diffusion Societies, and heaven knows what else! What is all this for? Not to add knowledge to the learned, but to tell points to the ignorant, without giving them the trouble to acquire the links. Oh! it is sad work. And the result will be injurious to all classes.”

Source : Benjamin Robert Haydon, Frederick Wordsworth Haydon (1876). “Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir”, p.450
“The teacher does not have to be, although he has to know: he is the mind imagining, not the executant.”
“I think for my part one half of the nation is mad - and the other not very sound.”

Source : 'The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves' (1762) ch. 6
“Let me tell you that atheism has never painted a masterpiece. Atheism has never dispelled fear. Atheism has never healed a disease; faith in God has, but not atheism. Atheism has never given anyone piece of mind. Atheism has never dried a tear. Atheism has never given an intellectual answer to the creation. Atheism is bankrupt and empty; it's brain dead.”
“I feel very confident with the way I look. But I felt just as confident the way I looked before. I've always been confident with who I am.”

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