"I think what bothers us about fighting sports isn't the damage to the athlete but the fact that you win by doing more harm to your opponent than he does to you. It just seems ugly."

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Source : "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

Jonathan Gottschall

#Sports Quotes #Athlete Quotes #Fighting Quotes

“We often donâ€™t realize that where God puts us is the very place we need to be to receive what He wants to give us.”
“As a general rule, man strives to avoid labor. Love for work is not at all an inborn characteristic: it is created by economic pressure and social education. One may even say that man is a fairly lazy animal. It is on this quality, in reality, that is founded to a considerable extent all human progress; because if man did not strive to expend his energy economically, did not seek to receive the largest possible quantity of products in return for a small quantity of energy, there would have been no technical development or social culture.”
“Did you know that the black suited organization that attacked the Koresh cult was a United Nations task force?”
“I choose my battles, Dresden. Not you." She looked up at me calmly. "Let me put this in terms that will get through your skull: My friend is going to save a child from monsters. I'm going with him. That's what friends do, Harry.”
“I think the environmental impact of this disaster is likely to have been very, very modest.”

Source : "The spilling fields". "Background Briefing" with Wendy Carlisle, www.abc.net.au. July 4, 2010.
“...the limitations of my endurance were expanded over and over. At times I felt that if I did not sit down I would collapse. Then something would happen to attract my attention...miraculously, the distraction always provided wings, carrying new strength, a second wind.”
“There will be many cases when researchers will need to look at data to come closer to a cure, in maybe five years, 10 years, 15 years. We can help make that data analysis easier. We can't let this wait. Dementia has potential to cripple our economy.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“I love playing out. I love dance music, I love minimal electro. Especially hearing that in clubs, it's a nod to that really.”

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