"Assimilating college sports into the university would prevent them from being run as autonomies or fiefdoms. And you don't need an NCAA bylaw or an act of Congress to do it - just an active, empowered faculty and some administrators with backbone."

-- Sally Jenkins

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“I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf.”
“During climbs into taller trees, I was occasionally able to look down on the backs of birds, which shine with reflected sunlight as they move through the green depths of the canopy, like schools of fish.”

Source : Richard Preston (2007). “The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring”, p.231, Random House
“If we dwell in spirit, or Soul, we are living in happiness, for Soul is a happy entity. It is seldom anything else. When the mind presses in on it too strongly, however, it withdraws and leaves the body under the tyranny of mind.”
“I hope they look at me and think, 'That lady looks like she accepts herself.'”

Source : "Tracee Ellis Ross Looks Chic on Essence's "Black Women in Hollywood" Double Cover, Talks black-ish Success" by Zach Johnson, www.eonline.com. February 10, 2015.
“You have to get a great headline to attract attention in your blog - it's about the lure - not the rod.”
“The first entirely vital action, so termed because it is not effected outside the influence of life, consists in the creation of the glycogenic material in the living hepatic tissue. The second entirely chemical action, which can be effected outside the influence of life, consists in the transformation of the glycogenic material into sugar by means of a ferment.”
“It is important for us to make a distinction between the spiritual fruit of joy and the cultural concept of happiness. A Christian can have joy in his heart while there is still spiritual depression in his head. The joy that we have sustains us through these dark nights and is not quenched by spiritual depression. The joy of the Christian is one that survives all downturns in life.”
“A fat stomach sticks out too far. It prevents you from looking down and seeing what is going on around you.”

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