"Winning medals wasn't the point of the Olympics. It's the participating that counts."

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Source : "The Olympics - Where Are They Headed?". Awake! Magazine, February 8, 1977.

Pierre de Coubertin

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“You must be the greatest mother in the world, but you must also, simultaneously, withdraw from your children's lives. You don't want to be the major force in their whole lives. You need to do the job adequately and as best you can, and then provide them with independence from you. You have to give them enough so that they won't need you anymore.”
“I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away.”
“From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines.”
“The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.”
“Every step you take will feel as if you were treading upon knife blades so sharp that blood must flow. I am willing to help you, but are you willing to suffer all this?" "Yes," the little mermaid said in a trembling voice, as she thought of the Prince and of gaining a human soul.”
“We live on a hunk of rock and metal that circles a humdrum star that is one of 400 billion other stars that make up the Milky Way Galaxy which is one of billions of other galaxies which make up a universe which may be one of a very large number, perhaps an infinite number, of other universes. That is a perspective on human life and our culture that is well worth pondering.”
“You need to know life is on your side.”
“In our society many of the old rituals have lost much of their power. New ones have not arisen.”

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