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"Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes."
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"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."
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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."
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"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
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"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."
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"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."
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"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."
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"No man may make another free."
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"Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men."
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"That was not what men and women fought for during the war."
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"The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets."
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"The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age."
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"If he is knocked out of the competition, he encourages his brothers with his words and presence."
Family
"The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well."
Life
"The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete."
Life
"Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history."
History
"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."
Life
"All sports for all people."
Sports
"The Games were created for the glorification of the individual champion."
Sports
"The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die."
Happiness
"Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for."
Absence
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