"Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease."

-- Armstrong Williams

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“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.”

Source : "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.
“A Queen's sacrifice, even when fairly obvious, always rejoices the heart of the chess-lover.”
“Obviously, our children, who have been playing with their computers since the age of five or six, don't have quite the same brain as those who were brought up on wooden or metal toys, whose brains are certainly atrophied by comparison.”
“Education is both a tool of social justice as well as a fundamental driver of economic development.”
“There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.”
“In Finland, getting a university degree is the first thing that you expect your kids to do.”

Source : Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. April 27, 2001.
“This letter [to the Romans] is truly the most important piece in the New Testament. It is purest Gospel. It is well worth a Christian's while not only to memorize it word for word but also to occupy himself with it daily, as though it were the daily bread of the soul. It is impossible to read or to meditate on this letter too much or too well. The more one deals with it, the more precious it becomes, and the better it tastes.”
“I wanted to play professional hockey, man. But when I acted, I thought, 'Well, okay, maybe I do have something here.'”

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