"Only in sport? The qualification would seem meaningless to many Australians. What also is there that matters as much as sport? It is only in sport that many Australians express those approaches to life that are un-Australian if expressed in any other connection."

-- Donald Horne

#Sports Quotes #Connections Quotes #Matter Quotes

“We all want to escape our circumstances, don't we? Especially if you are an actor.”
“Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.”
“Markets are useful instruments for organizing productive activity. But unless we want to let the market rewrite the norms that govern social institutions, we need a public debate about the moral limits of markets.”

Source : Michael J. Sandel (2009). “Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?”, p.265, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
“The new illiteracy is about more than not knowing how to read the book or the word; it is about not knowing how to read the world...”
“Sports keep you feeling cheerful, feeling spirited, it's a kind of a thriving feeling.”
“So always, if we look back, concern for face-to-face morality, and its modern emphasis on justice as well, have historically evolved as religious issues.”
“The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort”
“She's (Christy Martin) voluptuous and intoxicating no smear lipstick. Here's a woman who pounds it out and her lipstick don't smear. Revlon should jump on that like white on rice, you know what I mean? Max Factor, Elizabeth Arden.”

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