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Billie Jean King

"Sports are a microcosm of society."

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"Sports are a microcosm of society."

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"Foulmouthed individuals seem to have their neuron systems replaced by colon structures, given that their terminology profusely consists of "sh*t and f*ck". ['Tolerance zero']"

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"The walls, where there was room, were well decorated with calendars and posters showing bright, improbable girls with pumped-up breasts and no hips - blondes, brunettes and redheads, but always with this bust development, so that a visitor of another species might judge from the preoccupation of artist and audience that the seat of procreation lay in the mammaries. Alice Chicoy...who worked among the shining girls, was wide-hipped and sag-chested and she walked well back on her heels...She was not in the least jealous of the calendar girls and the Coca-Cola girls. She had never seen anyone like them, and she didn't think anyone ever had."

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Amber Hurdle

"There is nothing in the record of the past two years when both Houses of Congress have been controlled by the Republican Party which can lead any person to believe that those promises will be fulfilled in the future. They follow the Hitler line - no matter how big the lie, repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as truth."

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"Will liked to live so that no one could find fault with him, and to do that he had to live as nearly like other people as possible."

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"I used to jog but it's bad for the knees. Too much beta carotene turns you orange, too much calcium gives you kidney stones. Health kills."

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"Chomie' is South African homosexual men's unofficial name."

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"It only too often yields to the temptation to become sycophantic, opportunist and lying, like a politician who sees the truth but wants to keep his place in popular favour."

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"The secular world often finds its constituents disenfranchised and solitary as it has spent a great deal of time debating the religious community while failing to build a true community of its own."

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"Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home."

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Amber Hurdle

"Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all people are recognized and accepted as a common obligation of all people and all countries - not until then shall we, with a certain degree of justification, be able to speak of humankind as civilized."

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"When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman."
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"The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing."
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"Martina's gone with people who don't want to be out, and it drives her crazy because she'd rather be open."
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"I was always in the tennis business-from 1968. I was in tournaments and also on World Team Tennis teams as well."
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"I wanted to use sports for social change."
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"A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time."
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"Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad."
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"I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life."
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"Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever."
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"That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question."
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