"The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea."

-- Pierre de Coubertin

#Reality Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Hello Kitty will never speak.”
“This is about an admitted attempt, encouraged from outside, to challenge and break the State's authority. That is intolerable. Whoever deviates from this policy that I have established, privately or publicly, will be expelled from the Union Nationale.”

Source : Response to the 1949 asbestos miners' strike on CBC radio,
“Why can't I be the adorable one?”
“Chess is so interesting in itself, as not to need the view of gain to induce engaging in it; and thence it is never played for money”
“Children are our most valuable natural resource.”
“A common creation demands a common sacrifice, and perhaps not the least potent argument in favour of a constructed international language is the fact that it is equally foreign, or apparently so, to the traditions of all nationalities.”
“When the people of a nation stop communicating, they lose the common purpose that made them great. Their cities become ghost towns. People live aimlessly because they have no cause for which they are willing to die. The cry of the populace is 'Just leave me alone'. Perhaps the ultimate hell is that the wish will be granted. It is not unlikely that our own nation will collapse not through an explosive roar, but through a deafening silence. This silence must be broken in our generation. We may never get another chance.”
“Not to understand the doer is to have no certain knowledge of what has been done, or why it was undertaken”

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