"Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones."

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Source : "Ex-Texas coach Royal dies at age 88", www.sfgate.com. November 7, 2012.

Darrell Royal

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“One has to be foolish or irredeemably stupid to believe that anything good can come to Europe from the land of presumed opportunity.”
“It's funny - my wife is more jealous of my books than of other women because I'm always working and thinking about my books.”
“There are also kinds of water that cause death, as they run through harmful juices in the soil and become poisonous.”
“If we are forever yearning for more time, we are forever discounting what is offered.”
“I wonder if, in fact, we have been observed by aliens and upon close examination of human conduct and human behavior they have concluded that there is no sign of intelligent life on Earth.”
“I would like to promote the concept of a partnership of insurance companies, physicians and hospitals in deploying a basic framework for an electronic medical records system that is affordable.”
“I'm 40 years old now and I have my friends from five years old up to 40, over 20 lifelong friends I have. And you can't keep that. You can't have that kind of friendship with people for 40 years from childhood friends if you're not an honorable person and if you're not a respectful person. And that's exactly what I am.”
“Since science is fashionable today, it allows its fraternity to propose cloddish monstrosities as a solution to man's problems in many fields. Fashion rules and, anyway, who but the experts can even dare to speak up?”

Source : Frank Schaeffer (1982). “A time for anger: the myth of neutrality”, Good News Publishers

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