"Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history."

-- Pierre de Coubertin

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“Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.”

Source : "Contarini Fleming". Book by Benjamin Disraeli, 1832.
“We shall go down in history as the greatest statesmen of all time,or as the greatest criminals”
“It adds up, but I deem it all necessary, even the camera gear. I enjoy photographing the otherworldly colors and shapes presented in the convoluted depths of slot canyons and the prehistoric artwork preserved in their alcoves.”

Source : Aron Ralston (2004). “Between a Rock and a Hard Place: The Basis of the Motion Picture 127 Hours”, p.3, Simon and Schuster
“I always knew Gordon Lightfoot was a really great songwriter, but his stuff even sounds better and better all the time. It's just so really good to me. It's just like that's what should be in a dictionary, you know, next to a really good contempory folk song, is a Gordon Lightfoot song.”
“You curl your hair and paint your face. Not I: I am curled by the wind, painted by the sun.”
“The idea that you make an experience that requires a conversation in a public place is training for the fact that culture is collective.”
“Learning and performing music have been rewarding, both physically and mentally. They helped me to mature and grow as a person.”

Source : Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. January 26, 2012.
“I was six when I saw that everything was God, and my hair stood up, and all, Teddy said. It was on a Sunday, I remember. My sister was a tiny child then, and she was drinking her milk, and all of a sudden I saw that she was God and the milk was God. I mean, all she was doing was pouring God into God, if you know what I mean.”

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