"The international game has changed for bidding cities."

-- Peter Ueberroth

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“The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.”
“Social change rarely comes about through the efforts of the disenfranchised. The middle class creates social revolutions.”
“Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.”
“Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.”
“A picture is what it is and I've never noticed that it helps to talk about them, or answer specific questions about them, much less volunteer information in words. It wouldn't make any sense to explain them. Kind of diminishes them. People always want to know when something was taken, where it was taken, and, God knows, why it was taken. It gets really ridiculous. I mean, they're right there, whatever they are.”

Source : "Out of the ordinary" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. July 24, 2004.
“It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity.”
“He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, for that is what he will know.”
“I think the most surprising thing about the Olympics would be the amount of interaction and partying that goes on behind the scenes. They have nightclubs at the Olympic Village. It's like college all over again.”

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