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Sports quotes

Sports quotes, aphorisms and ideas on athletes, life, perseverance and competition by the World of English blog. Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, …

American quotes (part 2)

The American people may not be the best-educated, but they’re very wise at heart. Norman Lear I just want someone to explain to the American public why investing in transportation in Iraq …

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
Sigmund Freud

Geniuses are like thunderstorms. They go against the wind, terrify people, cleanse the air.
Soren Kierkegaard

The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character; business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice.
Mahatma Gandhi

One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn't exist... Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.
Stephen Hawking

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Carl William Brown

As far as the development of human happiness is concerned I would say that egoism is the higher form of stupid ignorance that prevents it.
Carl William Brown