"Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence."

-- Lewis H. Lapham

#Sports Quotes #Perfect Quotes #United States Quotes

“I close my eyes and I can see a better day. I close my eyes and pray”

Source : Song: Pray, Album: My Worlds Acoustic, 2010
“My friends have stood by me marvelously in the ups and downs of my career. I don't believe there is anything more worthwhile in life than friendship. Friendship is a far better thing than love, as it is commonly accepted.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The U.S. Army records alone for World War II weigh 17,000 tons, and even the best historians have not done more than just scratch the surface. The story is such that 500 years from now people will be writing and reading about it.”
“Death isn't the end, it's the beginning.”
“If you wish to find Love, don't look for the object of love but rather for the source of love. There you will find the Beloved.”
“To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to forget breakfast instantly. It was agreeable too - it really was - to see him cut it off so smooth and juicy. There was nothing savage in the act, although the knife was large and keen; it was a piece of art, high art; there was delicacy of touch, clearness of tone, skilful handling of the subject, fine shading. It was the triumph of mind over matter; quite.”
“The onus is on us to determine whether free societies in the twenty-first century will conduct electronic communication under the conditions of freedom established for the domain of print through centuries of struggle, or whether that great achievement will become lost in a confusion of new technologies.”

Source : Ithiel de Sola POOL (2009). “Technologies of Freedom”, p.10, Harvard University Press
“Think about the whole world of biological complex sciences. We still don't understand the way a protein folds the way it does.”

Source : Source: www.nobelprize.org

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