"Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team."

-- J. C. Watts

#Football Quotes #Strong Quotes #Team Quotes

“I hate how the people who really get you are the ones you can never hold on to for very long. And the ones who donâ€™t understand you at all stick around.”
“There are known knowns and known unknowns, but what we should be worried about most is the unknown unknowns.”
“The old SV (Socialist Left Party) were useful idiots for the communists in Moscow. Today's SV are useful idiots for Saddam Hussein.”

Source : Aftenposten, February 23, 2003.
“The arc of your swing doesn't have a thing to do with the size of your heart.”
“The lot of man is ceaseless labor, Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder.”
“I know it is a bad thing to break a promise, but I think now that it is a worse thing to let a promise break you.”

Source : Jennifer Donnelly (2015). “A Gathering Light”, p.221, Bloomsbury Publishing
“Faith is the proper name of religious experience.”
“I love the rebelliousness of snail mail, and I love anything that can arrive with a postage stamp. There's something about that person's breath and hands on the letter.”

Source : "Richard Gere and Diane Lane interview – NIGHTS IN RODANTHE". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. September 26, 2008.

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