"In team sports the athletes were bonded by each other, there was an immense peer pressure to keep going. One dared not miss a practice for fear of letting his teammates down. Every time an athlete thought of getting back into bed in the morning he knew he would have to face the anger of his closest friends. But the sculler had to find motivation entirely within himself. No one else cared."

-- David Halberstam

#Sports Quotes #Morning Quotes #Motivation Quotes

“If you go through all the structures and features of this emerging European monster you will notice that it more and more resembles the Soviet Union.”

Source : "Secretly Trading Away Our Independence" by William F. Jasper, www.thenewamerican.com. May 9, 2013.
“All places are filled with fools. [Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.]”
“Only after awhile. After it came out and people began to engage in discussions about the social reflections of the film that I realized it had an importance I hadn't thought of.”
“In the opinion of the anarchist, the sum total of human ills is expressed in one word-authority.”
“Denn die Todten reiten Schnell. (For the dead travel fast.)”
“To be a queen of a household is a powerful thing.”
“Victims of domestic violence need assistance and deserve justice, I commend the crime unit's efforts to put offenders behind bars and reach out to victims.”
“(Carmine Crocco) A farm-labourer and cowherd, had joined the Bourbon army, killed a comrade in a brawl, deserted and lived as an outlaw for ten years. He joined the liberal insurgents in 1860 in the hope of an amnesty for his past offences, and subsequently became the most formidable guerilla chief and leader of men on the Bourbon side.”

Source : Eric J. Hobsbawm (1985). “Bandits”

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