"A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport."

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"I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories."

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"With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing."

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"One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."

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"It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree."

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"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."

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"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."

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