"If you don't try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody's back yard. The thrill of competing carries with it the thrill of a gold medal. One wants to win to prove himself the best."

-- Jesse Owens

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“Instead of seeing these children for the blessings that they are, we are measuring them only by the standard of whether they will be future deficits or assets for our nation's competitive needs.”
“An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the married, and embarrassment from the single.”

Source : "Lucinda". Book by Charlotte Bingham, 1966.
“Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable.”
“Tact is the great ability to see other people as they think you see them.”
“I only have one note, let's be honest. But I'll play a different version of that one note.”
“The essence of a novelist is to invent things and speak the truth, at the same time.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“One [has] to sense the trend of history and precede it.”
“Well, I don't think just because people are in a relationship that they're happy. I don't think relationships necessarily make people happy. You just are happy or you're not happy.”

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